Word: pauperizes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...doctors-for those who qualify. It offers matching federal funds to states for health care for the aged out of general tax revenues, thus costs the wealthy taxpayer more than the poor to support. Its opponents point out that its eligibility requirements practically force the aged to take a pauper's oath and that, in any case, it has not worked out in practice: of 24 states that have adopted it, only six have it in full operation, and 90% of all recipients live in only five states...
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Part three of The Prince and the Pauper, Mark Twain's classic...
Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Part 2 of The Prince and the Pauper, a film made in England and starring Guy Williams and 14-year-old Sean Scully in the dual title role. Color...
...shun the fact that we were the poorest family in South Boston." The family stove was fueled with stray lumps of coal that Knocko and Dannie picked up in the railroad yards, and John's meager earnings were supplemented by a "pauper's basket" from the welfare department. "I had to go down to the Chardon Street welfare home and chop wood so we could get the basket," says Knocko. "Those baskets didn't have any oranges or grapefruit or nuts in 'em. It was a yard of dried fish and a bag of potatoes...
...whose loadstone was high society; of a kidney ailment; in Worcester, Mass. A quiet operator in the Roaring '205, Monahan mingled gracefully with intended victims on the ballroom floor, later climbed second-story ladders for a lifetime take of $5,000,000 (insured value), but died a pauper because he couldn't get an honest job after 31 years in jail...