Word: livelihood
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Smithies also maintained that it would be unfair to the people of an underdeveloped country to deprive it of aid simply because we dislike its form of government. "If a dictator deprives a people of their liberty, should we come along and deprive them of their livelihood?" he asked...
...cocktail parties has had so little effect on events. American diplomats established cordial relations with men as important as themselves. The old world of personal diplomacy in which gentlemen reached equitable settlements of remote matters has little relationship to the world in which men kill and die for their livelihood...
...Prose has been my livelihood," writes Robert Graves in The White Goddess, "but I have used it as a means of sharpening my sense of the altogether different nature of poetry." The author's wish is clear: to be judged for his poetry, not for the 70 or so books of excellent autobiography, historical fiction, criticism, classical scholarship and translations from several languages that he has written in the past 40 years. Using A. E. Housman's litmus for a true poem ("Does it make the hairs of one's chin bristle if one repeats it silently...
Unlike two other famous Manhattan business streets. Madison Avenue and Wall Street, West 47th is virtually a closed corporation-except to men with relatives in the trade. "A man's knowledge is his livelihood," explains Dealer David Ruff. "You make a decision a minute, and it's easy to make a costly mistake." Most wholesale dealers have small shops, sell at a 5% or 7% markup, employ brokers who do the actual leg work for a 1% or 2% commission. Nearly 80% of the West 47th Street trade is wholesale, but there is also a thriving retail business...
...that it stands to lose the most should Britain cuts its Common wealth trade ties. Last year New Zealand shipped 89% of its butter, 94% of its cheese, 94% of its lamb and mutton to Britain-all told, half of its total exports. "The British government provides our very livelihood," pleaded Prime Minister Keith Holyoake, then agreed to a Sandys communique approving Britain's opening negotiations with the Six, provided that New Zealand's interests were safe guarded...