Word: doled
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...system of military alliances. Of the $3.8 billion total for foreign aid this year, about $3.2 billion goes to provide military equipment and "defense support" for U.S. allies. But the notion persists that foreign aid is still largely, or even mainly, economic-a sort of international dole...
...MARY FAY DOLE...
...instructed to use it to support his own family and to give the rest to the poor. Thus there are no beggars in Arabia. But the social security system consists of a line of black-hooded women squatting outside the palace wall every Friday to receive a weekly dole...
Elected to Parliament in 1924 from the tough shipyard and foundry constituency of Stockton-on-Tees, Macmillan was deeply moved by the suffering that the Depression brought to his constituents, established "dole schools" which he personally financed, to teach unemployed workers useful crafts. In Parliament he acidly attacked the inaction of his own Conservative Party, called it a "party dominated by second-class brewers and company promoters." In 1936 he even crossed the aisle to vote with Labor in censuring the government's inaction in depressed areas. The task of his generation, he cried, was "to conquer poverty...
Pending a general settlement, who occupies such contested geographical points as the Gaza strip and the strategic islands in the Gulf of Aqaha? To save face for both sides, the U.N. might well administer Gaza temporarily (where 217,000 Arab refugees are already on the U.N. dole). On the other hand, the Egyptian islands and adjacent coastline of the Gulf of Aqaba should go back to Egypt, but might well be demilitarized...