Word: crutch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...last election, the Conservatives elected 42 members from the Prairie Provinces. The $72 million wheat subsidy which Diefenbaker granted to western farmers 15 days before the election accounted for much of this support. Now this crutch is gone, and it is likely that western support will decline. Greatest dissatisfaction with Diefenbaker's regime has come from the discontented electorate in central Canada, urban voters who solidly backed the Liberals in the election last June. Diefenbaker's obvious last-ditch attempt to win the urban vote by promising urban development and redevelopment assistance will likely go unanswered. Social Credit leader Robert...
...initial experience of "smallness" is even more acute than at Harvard. One girl, wandering aimlessly through the Bear's Lair, one of the Union cafeterias, complained, "I never see anyone I know here anymore." To overcome this loneliness, the high school friend becomes a powerful crutch...
...year, but in my opinion it will become as necessary and inevitable as the Department of Agriculture and HEW." Many people, in and out of the cities, take sharp issue with the President, holding that the cities are already doing the job themselves and do not need another federal crutch. But no one denies that, whoever does it, there is a lot yet to be done in the big cities...
Williams is an electrifying scenewright, because his people are the sort who make scenes, explosively and woundingly. In Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Big Daddy jerks the crutch out from under his son Brick's arm and sends him sprawling in agony; a few minutes later Brick kicks the life out of Big Daddy by telling the old man that he is dying of cancer. In an age that suppresses its tantrums as impolite, part of Williams' cathartic appeal for an audience is to allow it to act out its hostilities vicariously. Above all, Williams...
...blunter is Dr. Max Geller, president of New York's Weiss & Geller agency, who says, "Agencies don't get paid for sticking to principles. If a company wants to go haywire in its claims, the agency either goes along or loses the account. Agencies need the moral crutch of Uncle Sam's regulations to resist the pressure of clients in this Darwinian jungle...