Word: cushion
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...result of this patch-quilt cushion for old age is that some workers are not covered at all, while some will enjoy as many as three or four pensions. The big reason a worker has to lean on other plans in addition to Social Security is that after 15 years, Social Security benefits are still too small to give security...
...improbable act of all would be. It would be a man who climbs up to the rafters and jumps down to the floor. The 1950 circus finally has one, named Leon de Rousseau or "Drop-along Placidly." That's all, he just jumps. He lands on a tiny sofa cushion and walks away...
Christians, says Canon Bell, have a tendency not only to exalt the Church as the end rather than the means of their religion, but "to make of it a covert in which to hide from Christ." All too many, he says, use the Church to cushion the impact of Christianity, as a small boy about to be spanked stuffs napkins in the seat of his pants. "Or, to change the comparison, we may seek to be inoculated against Christianity with a churchly solution of one part Christianity to 99 parts respectability and good-fellowship. Good-fellowship and respectability...
...question was not, 'Why did they break?'" explained Major Sobel, "but 'Why did they continue to endure?' " Sobel and his associates found that a five-layer cushion of psychological defenses had protected the old sergeants-and presumably all soldiers who survived long stretches of combat in good mental health -from caving in. As the layers were peeled away, normal combat anxiety eventually turned into psychoneurosis and the old sergeant became a casualty: ¶ "Distant ideals"-a reliance on such intangibles as "the four freedoms," democracy, and the desire for "keeping the enemy out of the United...