Word: parcelling
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...truly do not care for any man who would parcel out my God-given liberties. I am a black man whose patience has run out, and I criticized John F. Kennedy until that day his murder shocked me into despair. Suddenly I felt that he was certainly a champion for all men and that he had been struggling in a sea of hatred...
When economists parcel out credit for the vigorous profit showing, they give generous shares to the high rate of production (industrial production hit a new high in July), the steady buying of consumers and the relatively stable wage rates that have accompanied a period of comparatively peaceful labor relations. But businessmen feel that they themselves deserve more of a pat on the back. RCA President Elmer...
...children that automakers often direct their advertising campaigns: one Ford station-wagon commercial piles a parcel of kids into a wagon to impress on youthful viewers that in a Ford the whole gang can go with togetherness...
Anti-lntellectualism in American Life, by Richard Hofstadter. Anti-intellectual-ism, argues Hofstadter, is part and parcel of democracy, and he demonstrates the point with lively discourses on famous anti-intellectual mavericks and movements...
...himself and a Columbia University historian (The American Political Tradition, The Age of Reform). "Men do not rise in the morning, grin at themselves in their mirrors, and say: 'Ah, today I shall torment an intellectual and strangle an idea!' " Anti-intellectualism, argues Hofstadter, is part and parcel of any popular democracy...