Word: dolefully
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...pregnancy (with the help of a pillow) to get on welfare. She does not succeed, though, because the case-worker who comes to call is enamored of her silver shoes ("Just like the shoes Joan Crawford always wore!") to the extent that he will not put her on the dole list unless she gives them to him. She will not. Bribing welfare workers to get the money she rightfully deserves is a violation of her principles...
...employer, Procter & Gamble, wants him to return as a lobbyist. At 54, Harlow has his stake in Procter & Gamble's retirement fund, and profit-sharing and stock-option benefits. Other possibilities are Texas Congressman George Bush, who was defeated last month for the Senate, and Kansas Senator Robert Dole. Nixon's choice will indicate to what extent the White House will control party affairs going into the next election. Bush, for instance, would demand a strong voice for the committee. Dole might be more willing to function simply as Nixon's spokesman. There was talk that John...
Senator Robert Dole (R-Kan.) said that he supported the military action because it showed that the country was concerned for the fate of its prisoners...
...work of groups like the National Welfare Rights Organization, which now has chapters in all 50 states, the poor no longer feel that any stigma is attached to applying for welfare. Tens of thousands of persons who were once too timid or too ashamed to go on the dole are now rapping on the doors of their local welfare offices and demanding the payments they consider to be their right. Coupled with liberalized requirements and high unemployment, this has resulted, according to Department of Health, Education and Welfare figures, in a swelling of the welfare rolls to 12.7 million...
...wanted to be men. They wanted to be the cultural heroes and wanted to continue the sexual revolution which meant impersonal, free access to women. They wanted to hold the dope and dole it out to their women, keeping the much-too-heavy drugs for themselves. At TDA, women running the demonstration asked everyone not to trash. Some men retorted, "No mother-fuckin" woman is going to tell us when we can trash or not." So they threw the bricks and scurried back to protect their women. But women's affinity groups didn't need protection, or the shit which...