Word: benefits
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Third, Canadian voters have never elected two minority governments in a row. Since the Liberal party has a good chance of achieving a clean majority, they should benefit from this trend...
...Mississippi, home fires burned brightly for Negro Soprano Leontyne Price, 35. Returning to her native city of Laurel (pop. 27,889) after a third triumphant season with the Metropolitan Opera, she drew a standing ovation from an informally integrated audience of 2,000 whites and Negroes at a benefit concert for St. Paul's Methodist Church. Glowed Leontyne: "This is the only place where I can be at peace with myself, except Rome. New York was meant for work. Here at home I can eat too much and sleep too much...
...they were no more solicitous of English liberties than the King. Liberty was not won by a conscious effort; it was the product of evolutionary growth. "Men went into Parliament 'to make a figure,' " writes Namier, "and no more dreamt of a seat in the House to benefit humanity than a child dreams of a birthday cake that others may eat it; which is perfectly normal and in no way reprehensible...
Opposition is expected from the cigarette lobby and from non-college towns which receive no direct benefit from the higher cigarette...
...migration is heavier, and for obvious reasons: Florida is more crowded than it used to be; the farther south the more certain the weather; and the jet plane has brought the islands within easy reach. The winter vacation, once a plutocrat's privilege, has become a fringe benefit for Everyman, who is discovering that there is nothing quite so soul-satisfying as toasting in the sunshine while one's friends and relations are shivering in the sleet...