Word: happiered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...according to him, we can ignore it. If truth is only what the group or majority says it is, what is to prevent the group from plumping for head-hunting or cannibalism, or destructionism or any other "ism" if it's the group's idea of "being happier, more rational and humane?" Brameld's "dementiaism" sounds like a lot of John Dewey's tripe warmed over...
...order that is as close to Utopia as possible. The reconstructionist rejects all absolutes, thinks that there is no metaphysical design to the universe and that "history has no ingrained purpose, no preordained goal." All he wants to do is to build a future in which "man may be happier, more rational, more humane than he has ever been...
First Intimation. Ike had rarely seemed healthier or happier. In white jacket and black tie, he arrived at the Sheraton-Park shortly after 7 p.m., grinned and handshook his way through a reception, sipping at a Scotch-on-the-rocks, then at part of another. His color was ruddy, perhaps higher than usual around the cheekbones. For dinner he skipped the thick soup on the regular menu, had instead a cup of clear consommé, which came more in line with his diet of 1,800 calories a day. He ate a small piece of filet mignon (without the himself...
...Herblock into one of the season's sharpest needlings of G.O.P. generalities (see cut). Among Ike's points: ¶ "The ultimate values of mankind are spiritual. These values include liberty, human dignity, opportunity, and equal rights and justice." ¶ "More jobs and better jobs, a flourishing agriculture, happier living for every family, peace and plenty for all people−these call for a strong, growing, private-enterprise economy." ¶ "To stay free we must stay strong. Though we must recognize that peace cannot be gained by arms alone, yet we must gird ourselves with sufficient military strength...
...more hopeful note, the letter continued: "I have no possibility of sending any money for this subscription; nevertheless, I suppose that it will come a happier time, when I shall be able to send my subscription fee regularly and also pay my debt for those past years...