Word: partner
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Full Partner. Such "effective teamwork" is essential to the new-fashioned economy, he said. Harry Truman sees the Government as a full, active partner, developing resources, spending on education, health and social security. "If we cut these programs below the requirements of an expanding economy, we should be weakening some of the most important factors which promote that expansion...
...England. "Design for a Stained Glass Window" deals with the effects of this pressure on the convictions of several people in the ten years covered by the play's action. Robin Flemming, a tradesman of York, forswears Catholicism and eventually becomes Earl of Hartford a favorite of Elizabeth. His partner, John Clitherow, a prosperous Anglican merchant, wished to leave others alone and to he left alone, but this turns out to be impossible...
...Business. Where Dr. Reeves and his partner, roly-poly Dr. McShane, 26, differ from oldtime physicians is in their methods. They carry few pills in their black bags, and rarely dispense medicine. (Their patients give the local drugstore $12,000 in prescription business a year.) In two years Dr. Reeves has never delivered a baby at home, nor performed surgery outside the little yellow stucco hospital on the edge of town...
Winter Harvest. The first months were even busier than Dr. Reeves had expected. Before a year had passed, he called in Dr. McShane, just graduated from his own old school, and made him a partner...
...Reeves hoped that a partner would cut down his 16-hour day, seven days a week. It helped, but he still has few chances to get away to the irrigation spillways to cast for bass, or onto the prairie to hunt for quail, or to the hills for antelope. Grinning, he sees a connection between last winter's blizzards (when he had to make farm calls by horse team or "weasel" tractor) and the heavy obstetrical practice in the last weeks of 1949: "The blizzards kept most people home, and we're just reaping the benefits...