folk-way

plural folk-ways

1. alternativeAlternative form of folkway.

   By the time you are grown up and can consider the folk-ways of your childhood with detached impersonality, you have forgotten what was of most value. Rarely will a child tell frankly of his lore, and rarely can an adult remember.

   1925, Dorothy Scarborough, assisted by Ola Lee Gulledge, “Children’s Game-songs”, in On the Trail of Negro Folk-songs, Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: Humphrey Milford, Oxford University Press, →OCLC, page 129

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   The restricted sustentive range of manipulations of foreign aid in economic warfare is especially marked. This is due to the state of the domestic law concerning foreign aid; "reciprocal controls" which a recipient state can exert; and a "folk way" expectation of economic aid flowing from centers of great productivity, such as the United States, the Soviet Union, and the countries of Western Europe. This folk-way expectation has emerged as a postulate of an obligation to supply the "needs of the needy" upon which foreign aid reasoning in both donor and recipient states tends to be founded.

   1967, Neill H. Alford, Jr., “Economic Warfare as a Primary Policy Device”, in Modern Economic Warfare: (Law and the Naval Participant) (Navpers 15031; International Law Studies 1963; LVI), Newport, R.I.: Naval War College; Washington, D.C.: United States Government Printing Office, →OCLC, part II (The Naval Participant in Economic Warfare), pages 240–241