Word: citizen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...citizen who can't be trusted-according to the investigators ... I am prompted to quote Poet Arthur Guiterman: Providence, that watches over children, drunks and fools, With silent miracles and other esoterica, Continue to suspend the ordinary rules, And take care of the United States of America...
...said the President firmly, "much still remains [undone] that is of vital significance to every American citizen." Still pending: bills to accomplish a fairer distribution of the tax burden, broaden unemployment insurance and social security, improve housing conditions and strengthen the internal security net. Said the President, aiming at would-be security watchdogs on Capitol Hill: "Scarcely need I assure such an audience as this that I-and my every associate in Government-will keep everlastingly at the job of uprooting subversion wherever it may be found. My friends, I do not believe that I am egotistical when...
Also, Gassy Lamentation. Today, Author Hecht believes, "the artist is a vanishing figure . . . Individualism has dried up." All the girls, he complains, have become "masculinized," all the men soft as blubber. Police state government bleeds the citizen with taxes, relentlessly watches his every move. It is a far cry from the good old days of 1921, when Author Hecht, acting as "fund-raiser" for a Baptist group, "persuaded the Baptist synod ... to offer a prize of $5,000 for the best biography of the Savior," entered the contest under "the name of a needy Baptist pastor"-and walked off with...
...repeated his reasons for joining and leaving Communism. Relterating that he knew of no present Communists at Jefferson Rutman again refused to give names. Approximately half of the five-hour hearing was devoted to the testimony of six character witnesses who asserted they believed Rutman to be a loyal citizen, and a person of honesty and integrity...
...full right to speak as a citizen...