Word: loafed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...increased minimum wage and new federal highway financing. But such pet Kennedy programs as aid to education and medical care for the elderly never even came to House votes. And in one of the bitterest blows of all. President Kennedy got for his vital foreign aid a half-loaf that did not meet his urgent demands for long-term borrowing authority...
...tons of edible oils at cut-rate prices. Marshal Tito, the Communist dictator of hungry Yugoslavia, originally requested twice that amount after Yugoslavian wheat harvests turned out poorly: then Tito proceeded to denounce the U.S. at the Belgrade conference of "neutralist" nations (TIME, Sept. 15). The half-a-loaf grant was made in the hope that Tito, however hostile to the U.S., might still be useful as a Communist leader who can operate independently of Moscow when he has a mind...
...Half a Loaf. With a private army at his back of tough Gauchos from his own state of Rio Grande do Sul, Jango laid proper claim to the Presidency. In doing so, he had the backing of nearly every civilian leader in Brazil, whatever their misgivings. The solution was the inauguration of Goulart as President, but under a new constitutional amendment making him a figurehead in a parliamentary system controlled by a Prime Minister...
Acting like a man who believes half a loaf is better than none. Goulart gave his agreement, insisting only that the amendment be presented to Brazilians in a referendum. Said one Congressman: "Congress has done all it can. Now it is up to the military...
Like any other potent social medicine, government assistance to the needy often causes unpleasant side effects. The welfare state means new security for the millions who do not share the nation's affluence. But it also means public intervention in private lives, job-shirking relief chiselers who loaf at government expense, and tax burdens that soar higher every year. Can the side effects be nullified without crimping the cure? Last week one city answered with a resounding yes -and in the process, Newburgh, N.Y., gave the nation cause for some sober second thoughts on the use-and misuse...