Word: cons
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Fair Deal: the G.O.P. is not opposed to spending money for worthwhile welfare projects. Though softspoken and retiring, Folsom, when treasurer of Eastman Kodak and chairman of the Committee for Economic Development, learned to be suave enough to counter pressure groups, courageous enough to fight against more con servative colleagues for programs that he thinks are necessary, e.g., direct federal aid for school construction...
...bird charmer. In disinterring the Kreuger story, Author Allen Churchill (no kin to Winston), onetime managing editor of the American Mercury, enjoys the valuable quarter-century distance that lends disenchantment. His research is sometimes superficial and his prose tabloidish, but he captures the flair and flavor of the Napoleonic con man who was the Match King...
...portrait is filled in by his pressagent ("I was paid to work for him, not to like him"), and by a simple, slightly ridiculous man who gave him his start-winningly played by Ed Wynn ("He was not a nice person")-what emerges is "a glorified con man with his voice amplified...
Gifford Proctor protested: "But if you're caught here, all of us will go to jail," and others rose to argue pro and con. Suddenly a high cry of anguish broke into the dialogue. "We'll take them in! We'll save them, won't we, Mother?" shrilled five-year-old Kim Sanders. His mother shushed him, and the talk went...
...Jung and Otto Rank. Says Progoff: "When we make allowances for the areas where they overlap, repeat each other, or say the same thing in different words, and when we balance out the personal facts that led to undue emphasis in one direction or another, there remains a fundamental con-isistency in the development of [their] thought and practice." As Progoff sees it, Freud took the initial dive, and then the other three followed, each penetrating a little more deeply into the depths of the psyche, each coming a little closer to "the spiritual core of man's being...