Word: doled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...three girls in the cast were all able. Patricia Dole made good use of her fine figure in a bump and grind scene and was a fair comedienne. Her voice, unfortunately, was neither strong nor tuneful...
...rest of the revue ranged over wider subject areas. Pat Dole and George Connolly touched on the trials of compact car "parking ("I thought it was your head, but it was only the steering wheel.") That dur- able dart board, the First Family, was treated quite well with a song about "Young Love"--Caroline was just "the girl next door" whom George Connolly met at the Easter egg roll...
...elected, Bosch sent up reform programs like soap bubbles. Besides new hospitals, schools, old-age homes and better transportation, he promised to dole out 16-acre farm plots among 70,000 rural families. Another Bosch promise: economic diversification. Right now the Dominican Republic succeeds or fails with its sugar crop, which accounts for 70% of the country's export earnings of $140 million. So Bosch has pledged credits to small businessmen. He also hopes to coax more and more tourists to the country's four major hotels, its nightclubs, its cool, fragrant mountains...
...long last, U.S. patience has ended. Ambassador Ray Thurston is in Washington for consultation, expects to return to Haiti this week bearing an unpleasant message. The U.S. is cutting Duvalier off the dole, has reduced new aid this year to $2,400,000 (compared with $7,000,000 in 1962), will end all aid as soon as possible. The U.S. will honor its promise of $1,500,000 a year over the next two or three years for a malaria-control program, and will fulfill a $2,800,000 commitment for a jet airport at Port-au-Prince...
...affluent Britain, unemployment is even harder to take than it was in Depression days, when hardship was the rule rather than the exception. "Today," says Joe Dyson, a Hartlepool shipyard plater, "we have been leading different lives, with nice little homes and little luxuries. A man on the dole now has more to lose than he ever owned...