Word: graftings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ickes "was as prickly a customer to handle in those days as he is today. . . . He was so anxious to keep graft and politics out of the public works program that he practically spent money through a medicine dropper. Ickes' slowness in making decisions was sometimes a real handicap. . . . Public works projects were frequently [so] slow in getting started [that] expenditures for them were . . . made after instead of before the crises had passed their peaks...
...third of U.S. families say grace at meals. Seven out of ten prefer a dog to a cat as a family pet and only one in 20 keeps a canary. Almost no parents want their sons to go into politics; they are certain that a political career leads to graft and crookedness...
...progressive laws were enacted. On taking office again in 1944, Grau said: "There is nothing wrong with Cuba that an honest administration can't cure." To show his good faith, he publicly declared the extent of his fortune ($231,512 in cash and securities, plus real estate). But graft did not stop-for in Cuba no one man can stop...
...Menninger agrees that the ideal way to cut down on mental upsets would be to eliminate their social causes: international tension, housing shortages, strikes, graft, racketeering. Meanwhile, the A.P.A. has set out to collect funds for research and public education. A.P.A.'s newly organized Psychiatric Foundation, starting life penniless, hopes by public education to attract more medical students into psychiatry, and to "combat the stigma connected with mental illness" which still keeps thousands of emotionally frazzled people from consulting a psychiatrist...
...understand a great deal about Chen Li-fu and his China. Hsiao means, roughly, filial piety. But it stands for more than that. It means that the individual is nothing, the family everything. Hsiao holds Chinese society together; but it is also used as an excuse for graft and nepotism. Hsiao imposes on a man responsibilities the West does not know; but it also tends to modify the sense of personal guilt which is the basis of Western morality. Its companion symbol is cheng-correctness -which emphasizes ceremony and the outward forms of behavior...