Word: livelihood
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...greater and lesser note whose only crimes were either to refuse to answer questions concerning their political affiliations, or to acknowledge past membership in the Communist Party, U.S.A. Many of the former group wound up in prison for contempt of Congress; many of the latter found their careers and livelihood destroyed...
...military action absolutely under any circumstances. A sovereign power must retain the option of using force if and when its survival, or that of its essential allies, is at stake. "Any individual, or country, carries in the back of his mind the idea that if his life or livelihood is threatened, he will use all the means at his disposal to protect himself," observed Harvard Professor of Government Nadav Safran. Kissinger's remarks only repeated what he had said before on a "background" basis. They also were consistent with his earlier statements about the doomsday prospect facing the industrialized...
Brill shows considerable versatility in portraying Lenny both as a successful comedian and a man struggling for his livelihood and the respect of his peers. The second act is dominated by scenes that expose Lenny's personal deterioration from the stresses of litigation and legal stumbling blocks, and Brill handles these with as much sensitivity as his comic routines in the first...
Lenny died on a toilet seat from an overdose. In spite of the court convictions, he probably could have returned to the entertainment business. The Supreme Court was effortlessly reversing the decisions that had plagued him for years. But Lenny felt broken by the court decision, and without a livelihood, he lost his motivation to live. When the finance company notified him that his house was in forfeit, he poked a needle into his vein. He was found a few hours later, naked on the bathroom floor...
...booming heart of the city's shipping industry, the Southie waterfront became a depressed area in the 1950s. Employment and per capita income are lower there than in the rest of Boston. The community increasingly came to depend on the city's expanding trucking industry for its livelihood. Huge trucks began rumbling through the neighborhood, noisily disrupting games of street hockey. The neighborhood waged a bitter twelve-year battle to force the city to confine trucks to a single route that would skirt its residential streets. Though Southie eventually won, the law is only fitfully enforced, and youngsters...