Word: publicanism
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...Owner Roarty tries to kill his philandering barman Eamonn Bales with a toadstool omelet. When the poison fails, the publican does in the cad with a volume of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
...including blacks as full citizens in apportioning House seats, it did not mean to compel the former Confederacy actually to give blacks the vote. Quite the opposite, he says: the provision meant to reduce Southern representation when the former slavocracy denied blacks the opportunity to vote, ensuring continued Re publican control of the Government...
...addition, 45% of the 1 million federal pensioners are "double-dippers" who also collect Social Security checks, for which they qualified by retiring from Government service and taking jobs in private industry. Declared Wisconsin Re publican William Steiger: "This is an appalling use of public funds." The double-dipping would gradually end if the two retirement programs were merged. Nonetheless, the House bowed to intense pressure from lobbyists for the Government workers and shelved the merger for at least two years. That will give the Executive Branch time to search for a way to combine the programs in a manner...
...page booklet, are impressionistic but provocative. The tiniest group identified is what Hale calls the True Unbelievers-agnostics, humanists and atheists-most of whom turn out to be only latent unbelievers who often express a certain longing for faith. By far the largest group is the Publicans, named after Jesus' story in Luke 18 about the prayers of the Pharisee and the Publican. Whether they themselves are humble or self-righteous, Hale's latter-day Publicans scorn what they regard as the self-righteousness and hypocrisy of churchgoers. Oddly, many complain about the fact that Christians drink. Other...
Meanwhile, in the U.S., the Democratic Administration and G.O.P.-run Congress began hammering out enabling legislation in a bi partisan mood fostered mainly by Re publican Senator Arthur Vandenburg. Congress doubtless saw the plan in terms of cold war designs, and its passage was helped substantially by Stalin's hostility to it. President Harry Truman himself considered the Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan "two halves of the same walnut." He signed the law on April 3, 1948. Two weeks after that the freighter John H. Quick left Galveston, Texas, with 9,000 long tons of wheat for France...