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• It affected families too: I had one grandfather at Pearl for the duration as a radio operator while my paternal grandfather, an engineer, no sooner had a rare beer on V-E Day (he was a fusty old lower-middle-class Southern Baptist bigot, a charming grandfather and good with kids, but those other things too in a run of trumps) than he got to spend an extra year in the service rebuilding infrastructure in the Philippines. Where we won the War we started by almost losing it
• He had to drag the son of a poor and lower-middle-class peasant into his shameful affair.
• Graham's success is largely emblematic of the changes that the war years wrought on what Starr throughout the volumes of his history calls "The Folks" — those middle - and lower-middle-class Anglo-Saxons transplanted from the Midwest who for so long culturally defined much of California. California Transformed
• For all their crafty appeals to lower-middle-class grouses, fascist regimes left existing patterns of property and social class largely intact.
• Vivian, a 19-year-old, white, lower-middle-class, Jewish girl, was seen in intensive biweekly and triweekly psychotherapy over a three-year period. Clinical Work with Adolescents
• He had to drag the son of a poor and lower-middle-class peasant into his shameful affair.