Word: ebb
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...ebb tide had set in and John Bricker could not stop it. In midweek, Connecticut's Republican Prescott Bush, one of the amendment's 64 original sponsors, publicly announced a change of mind, indicated he would vote against it. Five others admitted privately to the same change of position. Bricker could no longer count on the necessary two-thirds majority...
...their platforms an invariably call for increased benefits. Week after week, year after year the working man sees one and a half percent deducted from his pay check and is fully confident that, come 65, he will retire on a guaranteed income. Social Security is untouched by the ebb and flow of economic and political tides because its payments come entirely from a trust fund maintained by scaled payroll taxes. At the present time, this fund contains over 17 billion dollars, more than enough for current benefit expenses. Further, the Administration plans legislation to include farmers and professional...
With donations and pledges at a low ebb, the Radcliffe Community Service Fund Drive chairman yesterday announced a new effort to secure a "decent, final amount...
Your review of Mr. Hutchins' Great Conversation [Sept. 21] points up the end of an era. Adler and Hutchins were the great reactionaries of philosophy at a time when it had reached a low ebb. Flying against the strong winds of experimentalism, their banner of Platonism called the unbeliever to return to the ancient modes of thought. Standing almost alone at times, they did us and the country a very real service...
...Personal religion, and understanding of and participation in the work of the Church, could apparently in many earlier generations be taken for granted. Latterly, they have tended to ebb away in the all but universal adoration of the state, and in almost idolatrous preoccupation with the secular order, the accumulation of knowledge, and with good works. There is not and cannot be a quarrel with any of these things in themselves, but only with the notion that they are independently sufficient goods...