Word: benefits
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Curiously, the debacle may benefit Tydings when he battles Old Foe John Marshall Butler, the Republican who defeated him, with Joe McCarthy's help, in 1950. To anchor power and brighten prestige, the dominant Mahoney Democrats must help Tydings. Aware of this, Mahoney at convention's end poured balm on Democratic wounds with a close-ranks-until-November order...
...intellectual had a politico-social program to offer. But the "discontented classes" have risen, and though still discontent, their wants, says Riesman, "are much less easily formulated . . . They must continually seek for reasons explaining their unrest-and the reasons developed by intellectuals for the benefit of previous proletariats are of course quite irrelevant...
...from the grassy graves of the Civil War-Stonewall Jackson, vibrant and vital, writing his wife about his glory at First Bull Run: "God made my brigade more instrumental than any other in repulsing the main attack"; Ulysses Grant, daring, dazzling, slashing through the sleet against Fort Donelson without benefit of orders: 'Wo terms except an unconditional and immediate surrender can be accepted. I propose to move immediately upon your works"; Robert E. Lee, the superb exemplar, bareheaded astride Traveller at Spotsylvania, held back from leading the charge: "General Lee to the rear, General Lee to the rear"; Phil...
...wage increases, said Macmillan, "will not bring benefit to anyone. It would only bring benefit to men in a particular industry if they were the only ones to get it. But they will not be. If one starts, others will follow. No one will gain anything except more and more paper money, which will buy less and less...
...joins a circus as a clown for deep-seated reasons of his own. Composer Ward's music resembles Mascagni's, with thick textures sweeping strings and sweet harmonies and thus Pantaloon has the makings of a successful theater piece. Unfortunately, the drama does not need, or benefit from, the addition of music...