Word: particularized
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...magazine is in essence a vehicle for the expression and criticism of moral beliefs, and the important thing about its first issue is not that the three student articles say anything of particular importance, but that there is an attempt to present three relevant statements of belief by and for a group which should be most especially concerned with such matters--the university community. The contemporary college student seldom accedes to any firmly established ideology. He is taught that all ideologies have weaknesses and fallacies, and is reluctant to admit those tendencies in himself which demand belief at this price...
...every intermediate period since the New Deal, unions have relied on "Big Business" to set the pattern of labor gains. The result of cordial day-to-day relations over a long period is a dichotomy that translates out something like this: All "Big Business" is bad except the particular "Big Business" we happen to deal with. Coal producers have been at such pains to be on friendly terms with the United Mine Workers' John L. Lewis that their principal concern in selecting a bargaining representative was to find a man of whom Lewis would approve. This represents the ultimate...
Next question: "Would you select the particular field of medicine in which you are now practicing?" Psychiatrists answered with an 85% yes; internists, 82%; surgeons, 81%; obstetricians, 78%; G.P.s, 66%; and pediatricians...
...After the football season, Paul had no more athletes to help, but still used the elevator by himself. Occasionally he'd get lonely and ask his friends to go for rides with him. I was chosen on that particular...
...basketball program began on November 27, with the American League having ten teams, and the National nine. The number of players who have actually signed up to play--it averages about ten a team--indicates the great popularity of the intramural program as a whole, and this sport in particular...