Word: isolationism
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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They go for advice to a Harley Street specialist, who turns out to be the stranger at the cocktail party. They both lay their cards on the table face down. The specialist admonishes them for dramatizing themselves and trying to glorify their plight; they are, he says, mere self-deceivers...
The parade followed Senator Lucas to the Havana high-school gymnasium where everybody but the four horses crowded in to hear the home-town boy open his campaign. Actually, Lucas was getting a late start: his Republican opponent, ex-Congressman Everett Dirksen, had been running for months. Dirksen, onetime isolationist...
Though some communities in San Diego County showed a high polio rate among the people who came into contact with polio victims, others did not. Nonetheless, the doctors recommended more thorough isolation and quarantine. That was all they could offer. Otherwise, the old questions of how, when and where people...