Word: livelihood
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...British proved to be the most casual of mothers. They set up a dockyard at Valletta harbor, and for more than a century, the Navy Estimates were the most exciting thing that happened in Malta, as well as the chief source of livelihood of its 320,000 inhabitants. But the island hardly interested the British until, in World War II, it became the center of bitter struggle with the Italians and the Germans for control of the Mediterranean. Then, as a British air and naval base, with the Maltese dug into its golden limestone, the island held out against...
...with Chiang since student days. Chen simultaneously tightened police control and initiated basic reforms, notably land reform. Chiang had learned his lesson on the mainland: "The consensus is that our party failed during the past four years because we failed to enforce the principle of the people's livelihood...
...never been considered legally punitive. Does a dismissal on loyalty grounds, however, inflict real punishment on an individual because of the undeniable stigma it casts on his name in the present climate of opinion? And has this stigma of a "loyalty discharge" impaired Peters' future ability to earn a livelihood and hence deprived him of property, as well as liberty, in violation of the Fifth Amendment? On these central issues may hinge the outcome of the Peters case and the future status of the loyalty program...
Today, in his soft-spoken way, ex-Dean Hanford is indulging in that love. Now he can give his Government 140 lectures or take trips back up into New England to investigate small towns without worrying about the livelihood of 4,000 young men. He can teach a junior non-honors tutorial section in Adams and spend more time on his gardening...
...first, the state's reason seems worthy, noble and American. In the words of the executive secretary of the State Athletic Commission, "We do not feel a state government department should further the livelihood of a Communist." But this idealistic attitude is subversively invidious...