Word: subsistence
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Today, two-thirds of the world's population lives in areas that produce only one-third of the world's food. In parts of Algeria in the weeks just before harvest, peasants and their families subsist on acorn biscuits or boiled juniper berries. In Latin America, per capita agricultural production is nearly 6% lower than it was before World War II, and in Asia it is 10% lower...
...well be wondered if anyone longing for redemption has ever really been drawn by the prospect of continuing to subsist through an infinite temporal series--no one thirsted for "eternal happiness," I suspect, in a literal sense. It would be an insipid life of everlasting boredom, as wits like Shaw have often pointed out. Indeed it is the fact of death that gives value to life; only the certainty that the temporal series is finite imparts any worth to a given point or segment...
...well be wondered if anyone longing for salvation has ever really been drawn by the prospect of continuing to subsist through an infinite temporal series--no one thirsted for "eternal happiness," I suspect, in a literal sense. It would be an insipid life of everlasting borerom, as wits like Shaw have often pointed out. Indeed, it is the fact of death that gives value to life; only the certainty that the temporal series is finite imports any worth to a given point or segment. An immortal man would not be a man; like an unshakeably secure God, he would lack...
...beginning on agrarian reform for the 800,000 country dwellers including landless guajiros (peasants) who live in dirt-floor, thatch-palm huts, subsist on the $3 daily they earn during the three-month sugar harvest...
...this Joke Generation subsist? How was its Life Source of gadgets purveyed? By the J and S book. The J and S Book, as it was affectionately known, was the catalog of the Johnson and Smith Company of Racine, Wisconsin. The Company ran intoi trouble in the frigid climate of the early 'Thirties, when people decided practical jokes were impractical. But there yet remain copies of the catalog, virtually unchanged since the pre-World War I days, which are now of unestimable value...