Word: benefits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...concludes Wolin, are in France and Italy. For this, Wolin offers one electoral explanation: "In the strong Scandinavian democracies, and especially under the Anglo-Saxon two-party system, disaffection swings public opinion to the main opposition party; in weak democracies, especially under the system of proportional representation, it can benefit Communist parties...
Stoned to Death. In Jericho, 20,000 Arab refugees from Israel poured out of their dismally squalid camps and rampaged through a model-farm school, established for their benefit by U.S. and Middle Eastern philanthropists, breaking windows, smashing incubators, and killing or stealing 10,000 chickens and 3,000 turkeys. Next the mob burned down a warehouse containing $60,000 worth of clothing which an American Mennonite mission had planned to distribute to the refugees as gifts. In the little town of Bethlehem, usually host to thousands of Christian pilgrims at this season, another mob stormed a police station; police...
...since the troop was founded, all the boys have earned Tenderfoot ratings. A few are Second Class Scouts. The most significant thing about their accomplishment, Scoutmaster Alan Conley believes, is that all of them have genuinely earned their advancement: the program has been modified, but not simplified, for their benefit. "We have learned," says Conley, "that these boys crave responsibility. Before, they were always treated like babies. No one gave them responsibility because it was felt they did not want it. Now they are thankful for what they have, and they are happy...
Walter Winchell, the grand old man of keyhole journalism, often writes as if Communism, cancer and the Cub Room were invented for his exclusive benefit. This week Winchell added Gutenberg to his preserve. He wrote: "The invention of the printing press represented a blessing for columnists-conceivably ranking with the discovery of fire for other mortals...
...street-singing hobo when the inevitable pirate treasure turns up and the inevitable attorney traces him down as chief heir. Ma Pomme naturally decides to refuse the 600 million pounds in favor of a beggar's freedom, but he goes first to meet the new-found relatives who would benefit by his acceptance. These include a pasty-faced entrepreneur, a roly-poly lady who has spent decades figuring out how to beat the gambling houses, and a couple of attractive women who complicate things considerably. The plot serves excellently its main function, which is to give Chevalier opportunities to sing...