Word: neediest
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disclaimer affidavit and an oath of allegiance to the United States. "The oath of allegiance required by section 1001 (f) (2) makes the disclaimer affidavit superfluous," Pusey continued. The disclaimer affidavit, he said, "is also discriminatory since it singles out students alone in our population--and among students, the neediest--as subjects for special distrust... Since the (disclaimer) provision would present no barrier to those it is designed to catch, it is ineffective... As a kind of test-oath substituting an implied threat of coercion for persuasion in the realm of ideas, it seems counter to the philosophical principles...
...fact remained: two years of drought had turned Syria from a land that once exported 159 million Syrian pounds worth of grain a year to one that must now import 50 million pounds worth. Some Syrians, completely forgetting that Egypt itself is perennially one of the world's neediest cases, have begun to demand that Cairo do more to help. But the lack of rain in Nasser's northern province was one thing that even efficient Soldier Amer could do very little about...
...majority of scholarship applicants at Harvard and equivalent colleges are students who will go to college somewhere else if they are denied aid. "I would be reasonably certain," King writes, "that at no College Scholarship Service college do as many as half the scholarship winners come from the neediest half of our nation's population. I would even wager that at no CSS college do as many as half of the dollars spent for scholarships go to students from the neediest half of our population." And this despite the financial aid revolution of determining stipends by need rather than merit...
...first encounter was indicative of events to come. Following the team's first loss, the Varsity Club mysteriously caught on fire. And, as a result, the Harvard Band, which lost most of its scores in the blaze, was added to the New York Times' list of the Hundred Neediest Cases...
Shortly before the downy blanket of winter is drawn up snugly over the countryside, the New York Times publishes a survey of that city's Hundred Neediest Cases. For several pages it details woeful tale after woeful tale, the plight of an "Overburdened Girl" or "Courageous Grandmother" unfolding in full tragedy...