Word: doled
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Republican leaders were equally surprised. They adopted what Senator Robert Dole called a "rearguard strategy." They decided to vote against the military aid bill, which was killed, 48-42. Curiously enough, such Senate doves as Mansfield and William Fulbright voted against it because they object to giving any military assistance to foreign countries...
...argument to Barbara is that he feeds, clothes and houses his workers so that they can find their souls, while she narcotizes the poor with a Salvation Army soup-kitchen dole that makes them compliant addicts of their own degradation. Somewhat overpowered in the debate, Alexander is also over matched in the role, lacking Richard son's explosive charm and easy com mand. Under Edwin Sherin's impeccable direction, a dozen character sketches in depth are expertly rendered. The British accents are flawless and the set is hermetically sealed in a world of timeless Edwardia...
...coronation rather than a contest, a subdued, elegantly appointed spectacular in which the only mystery is the question of the vice-presidential nomination. No major fights, no challenges are in the offing. Richard Nixon has all the votes he needs for renomination. "The President," says Party Chairman Robert Dole, "has got the delegates, and there aren't going to be any credentials fights, so it's going to be a rather harmonious meeting...
ROBERT J. DOLE. Nixon has few advocates in the Congress as determinedly -and sometimes abrasively-loyal as the 48-year-old wickedly witty first-term Senator from Kansas, who is Republican national chairman. "As far as I know, the Senator has no hobbies," says one of his aides. "What he's most interested in is getting other Republicans elected." Dole will preside over the first session...
...Vincent Dole of New York's Rockefeller University Hospital, a pioneer in the use of methadone, argues that physicians should relieve, not increase, the suffering of the heroin addict. Most drug users apparently agree. Addicts are far more likely to turn themselves in for treatment if chemical substitutes are offered than if the prospect is cold turkey. The flaws in that argument are that American treatment programs have a high relapse rate and that the addiction epidemic is nowhere near being checked...