Word: doled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DOLE...
While many wives prefer to remain in the bowl, an increasing number are openly expressing discontent and looking for means to change the system that ensnares them in a variety of ways. Some, like Abigail McCarthy or Mieke Tunney or Phyllis Dole, have left their husbands and named politics as the corespondent. Others, like Betty Ford and Joan Kennedy, have sought psychiatric help and owned up to it - something that would have been unthinkable a few years ago. Occasionally there appears a Cornelia Wallace or a Martha Mitchell who does not hesitate to speak her own mind whatever her husband...
...Senator Robert Dole of Kansas, former Republican national chairman. "He spent the first two years of Nixon trying to convince the people back home that he was the President's right hand man," says one Midwesterner. "He spent the last two years trying to convince them he never saw the guy." Free of the Nixon incubus, Dole's dilemma is ended. His opponent, Congressman William Roy, has been attacking him for being close to the former President. That attack has been blunted by Nixon's resignation, and Dole's chances of holding his seat in Republican...
...signed into law the $950-million anti-poverty bill. In a bright Washington sun that seemed to embody his belief in the possibility of a more just American society, Johnson said that a "new day of opportunity is dawning" for the nation's poor. "The days of the dole in our country are numbered," he promised, and observers seemed to agree. The New York Times reported that the program "would help the poor to lift themselves out of the ruts of poverty and join the majority of Americans in sharing in prosperity...
...lines that it has since taken over were collecting $12.5 million a year in Government aid. But this month Allegheny became the first of the nine U.S. "feeder" airlines to go off federal subsidy entirely - at its own request. The line, President Leslie Barnes proclaims, no longer needs a dole. He told stockholders that profits in the first six months of 1974 would equal or exceed the record $6.2 million earned on $325 million revenues...