Word: doles
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...extent of federal art patronage in the U.S. from 1933 to 1943 would have made even the Medicis blush. Known mainly for its major program, the Works Progress Administration, Government benevolence kept artists, among others, alive during the Depression not only by the dole, but by work. In fact, it changed an era that otherwise could have been barren of artistic achievement into a germinal decade...
Volunteers (called Accionista) might help the unskilled poor build a clay pipe to bring in water or teach them basic job skills such as sewing and welding. But for the most part, ACCION is not there to give technical assistance or to dole out aid. In fact, alms-giving charities just hinder ACCION's effort to stimulate the people into initiating projects for themselves...
...said: "While our wealth is great, it is not unlimited. It must be used not merely to apply Band-Aids to superficial wounds but to remove the cause of deeper and more dangerous disorders. That is why I do not intend for American aid to become an international dole. Our assistance must and will go to those nations that will most use it. Action, not promises, will be the standard of our assistance...
...added 3 in. to his meager (5 ft. 3 in.) frame by stuffing rags and folded tin cans into his black leather boots. He dyed his hair raven black, wore pancake makeup, pale cream lipstick and mascara. As for the cash, which he got in a generous weekly dole from his mother, Schmid bragged to the boys that it came from smuggling cars into Mexico, to the girls that it came from women whom he had taught "100 ways to make love...
...only experience William Dole Eckert, 56, had with baseball was as a high school first baseman back in Madison, Ind. Last week the 20 owners of the major-league ballclubs elected Eckert to succeed Ford Frick for a seven-year term as baseball's $65,000-a-year commissioner...