Word: work
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...cold that kept Ed Hamlin out of practice all last week has let up enough so that he can work out. Jed Fitsgerald's leg is better than it was before the Yale meet, and all the other runners are in perfect shape, except for Fred Howard, who is suffering from a tender Achilles tendon...
...attempt to develop a far-reaching people-to-people diplomatic program, the Bill would send a number of American young people to work directly with citizens of under-developed countries. If the Bill is passed, a maximum of 500 young people will be recruited during the program's first year. Under present plans, the Peace Corps would expand gradually, allowing no more than 5,000 during its fourth year...
...talk, "Satire and the Censor," Johnson defined "censor" as the forces that stand between a satirical work and its acceptance. Thus, political parties, social conventions, and even the writer's personal loyalties are censors...
Almost six million people are unemployed, with all sorts of public work that needs to be done. Meanwhile, the steel industry operates at little more than fifty per cent of capacity, and the automobile industry turns out products that drink gasoline and are designed to become obsolete a year after manufacture...
...express each thought. His wry optimism and homey mannerisms have led some to compare him with Lincoln, and his own special synthesis of principle and realism strengthens this impression. "They may call me naive, but I have my streaks of skepticism and bitterness, you know. Life demands that everybody work out his own compromises and settlements...