Word: rationality
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...make music together. During the occupation, they might have been sent to forced labor in Germany-or at least to careers as orchestral musicians, which they felt would also mean oblivion-but for the intervention of the late conservatory director, Claude Delvincourt, who provided them with fake identification and ration cards, got them financial support that allowed them to go on playing as a quartet...
...Greece, which is cutting fuel-oil consumption, will also ration gasoline by the simple expedient of banning all cars with odd-numbered licenses from the road on odd days of the week, all even-numbered cars on even days...
...critic put it). Although she fell ill with pleurisy, she enlisted with the Spanish Loyalists, vowing never to use the gun she was issued. Before she died in England during World War II, she starved herself by refusing, though weak and ill, to eat more than the wartime food ration allotted her countrymen in France...
...France, the beleaguered Communists tried a desperate show of defiant strength. They ordered their strongest instrument-the Confédération Générate du Travail, whose 1,000,000-plus membership makes it the dominant power of French labor, to pull a nationwide, one-day strike. "Let us unite to stop fascism," they cried, meaning by fascism the resistance of all Hungarians to the Russian tanks. Last week the walkout came. It was a colossal and embarrassing flop. In the Paris area not a single bus, subway or trolley ground to a halt...
...many a Briton, and to the Laborite Opposition in particular, the words meant a gloomy return to an all-too-familiar picture of belt tightening and austerity-soaring prices, short supplies, rationing, unemployment and inflation. The Ministry of Fuel and Power already has a complete supply of new ration books on hand, and is drafting an army of clerks to pass them out. Gas rationing seems a certainty by Christmas time, with the private motorist the first to suffer from it. Some industries dependent on oil are making plans to convert to coal, which will in turn bring...