Word: care
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Federal Security Administration) met in Washington last week, everybody expected a scrap. The American Medical Association, champion of medicine-as-it-is, was in one corner. In the other: spokesmen for farm groups, labor unions, consumers' associations and minority medical groups, all of which believe that U.S. medical care is too expensive and fails to reach the people who need it most...
...Manny,' she says, 'is you gwine care me to de dance...
...stud'in' 'bout car'in' you to no dance. Heah you is doin' ugly all de time wid dat sloo-footed nigger from over on Triumph and won't give nobody else none, den you comes axin' me to care you to de dance...
...many of the nation's colleges, and probably to a significant degree in other eastern universities. But where other colleges manage in four years to weld their gangling, dissimilar Freshmen into something approaching an effective group, Harvard, deliberately or no, sees to it that Seniors in cap and gown care little for the greatest part of their classmates, know nothing of the hopes, aims, and activities of anybody outside their own small circle. Nor are their bachelors degrees necessarily a sign of an education any more integrated than the Class itself...
Albert Guerard certainly takes such care in his story entitled "Miss Prindle's Lover." It is the closest approach to old-style narrative in the magazine, and whether you happen to be interested or not--I was--in a story about the peculiar attraction a middle-aged spinster has for a young man, it is impossible to deny that Guerard has drawn convincing characters and taken them through a series of comprehensible events, rare virtues indeed...