Word: pauperizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pauper's Pay. In doing so, motive has gained an enviable record for pioneering. It was one of the first church journals to accept and define civil rights as a theological problem. Although Methodist morality frowns on premarital sex, motive has dealt sensitively and sympathetically with student difficulties related to the problem. Such is the magazine's reputation for intellectual openness that theologians of the stature of Thomas Merton, Joseph Sittler and Albert Outler have frequently contributed some of their freshest thoughts to its pages, although $50 is maximum pay for an article...
...City. "What I do believe is that through the application of advanced educational and medical techniques we can salvage tens of thousands of these men each year, first for productive military careers and later for productive roles in society." In a speech in Montreal last May, McNamara warned that pauper nations endanger world peace and thus U.S. security. His V.F.W. address brought this thinking home: "Poverty in America affects our national security, too, by its appalling waste of talent...
...used his works as models for copy ing. In admiration, Novelist Honoré de Balzac said of him: "That fellow has Michelangelo under his skin." Yet the world's most famous satirist with brush and pen cost his country 12 francs in 1879 to be put into a pauper's grave...
...that dated from the days of Moses and was a blend of synagogue, law court and psychoanalyst's consulting room for the superstitious, the bereaved and the troubled. For Isaac Bashevis, it exemplified "the celestial council of justice, God's judgment, absolute mercy." One time a miserable pauper, who was forced to keep the corpse of his wife in his rat-ridden cellar room until it could be buried, asked if it were permitted a good Jew to sleep in the same bed with a body. The whole horrified neighborhood tumbled out compassionately with donations of food, clothing...
Fair's Fair. After two years in Statesville, which he remembers as all "whistles, bells and men in brown," Danny filed a pauper's appeal to the Illinois Supreme Court, which duly appointed an able young Chicago lawyer named Eugene Farrug to handle his case for no fee. On first meeting his scrawny client, Farrug felt immediate compassion: "He looked so small and helpless. There was the enormity of the prison, the towering guards, the prison clothes a little too big for him." Danny himself could hardly believe the earnest stranger's promise that "you have...