Both Uses of
livelihood
in
Hiroshima, by John Hersey
- While fetching the cloth, she noticed her sewing machine; she went back in for it and dragged it out, Obviously, she could not carry it with her, so she unthinkingly plunged her symbol of livelihood into the receptacle which for weeks had been her symbol Of safety — the cement tank of water in front of her house, of the type every household had been ordered to construct against a possible fire raid.†
Chpt 2 *
- This especially upset Mrs Nakamura, who remembered that in a moment of confusion on the morning of the explosion she had literally sunk her entire means of livelihood, her Sankoku sewing machine, in the small cement water tank in front of what was left of her house; now no one would be able to go and fish it out.†
Chpt 4
Definition:
the money needed to provide the necessesities of life; or the way one earns that money