Word: livelihoods
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...they are called. Presuming that the employees are engaged in a just defensive strike, it would seem that sufficient physical violence to prevent these men from entering the shops or factories would be permissible, inasmuch as they are unjustly cooperating toward depriving the workers of the means of livelihood...
...that college athletes are presumably amateurs, and any investigation into the Cambridge situation is not likely to invalidate the claim. With professionals, an intense scrutiny into private lives, actions, statements and future plans might be condoned on the grounds that the pros take such probing as part of their livelihood--although that, too, is subject to debate. Collegiate performers, on the other hand, who are ostensibly on teams because they like to play, rather than as a means of supporting themselves, should be treated as such., Their sports activities are worthy of comment, but their private lives are strictly their...
...pile of splintered glass and twisted wire. In the city's outskirts, they did a first-class wrecker job on a power plant. Besides crippling communications, the Reds wrecked 52 Kalgan factories (including flour, match, soap, and soy-bean sauce), depriving families of 3,000 workers of their livelihood...
...Representatives of the fanatical Government minority, they rule the vast, inert, defenseless Russian masses, as all minorities must, chiefly by means of an omnipresent secret police and its informers, by intricate economic controls that make every Russian dependent on the Government for his livelihood, and by hope-hope for a better future, which never comes, but which beckons with each new Five-Year Plan from the disastrous present. But when these controls creak under the enormous task, purges are a summary corrective-at once a technique of dictatorship and a reflex of fear...
...have to pay ?1 to the BBC, and we have to take what the BBC gives us, whether we like it or not. . . . There must be few healthy people who would not like to try their hand at broadcasting occasionally. . . . Others may seek their whole livelihood from it. Try the BBC, and no doubt you will get a fair hearing. But if you fail . . . you are finished...