Word: existences
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...view with loathing the incidence and stigmata of old age. Age, with rare exceptions, is repulsive to look upon, and its so-called wisdoms are very problematical. Every man and woman at the age of 60 should show cause why he or she should continue to exist...
Because their lives are an unrelenting and insatiable search for food, shrews exist in a perpetual state of nervous tension. So touchy are they that when a fox or a weasel, probably mistaking the rank-smelling shrew for a field mouse, lays a predatory paw on it, the shrew usually expires from shock...
...medicine, voluntary insurance, or compulsory health insurance (as proposed in the Wagner-Murray-Dingell bill-TIME, Dec. 11 1944), it suggested instead a system of Federal grants-in-aid to the states, for improving local health services. Objects: to build hospitals and health centers, organize health departments where none exist, provide sewage and water-supply systems, milk-pasteurization plants, scholarships and loans to medical and dental students, complete medical care for the needy (through extension of Social Security allotments...
...from useful work but from worry and anxiety. The Dark Ages were not abnormally religious, but they were extremely uncomfortable and dangerous. That is why Europe was covered with monastic houses. By entering religion, men and women were assured a prison ration of the necessaries of life, and could exist in peace and safety...
...dictators. They gave thunderous greeting to U.S. propaganda posters proclaiming the Four Freedoms, believed that at last the U.S. was giving them a chance to speak freely, live decently. But when the revolution broke, these U.S. well-wishers were disillusioned. U.S. embassies, which seemed to many Central Americans to exist chiefly to protect business interests, were embarrassed by the Four Freedoms propaganda. The State Department declared a "nonintervention" policy which was heavily weighted by Lend-Lease to favor the dictators...