Word: rejecter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...disguising themselves from death by dressing up as Pierrots, Harlequins, Columbines, clowns. One man is getting by (he hopes) insisting that a cholera epidemic does not exist. Most are being destroyed by their own suspicions, e.g., when Angelo thinks up a plan to escape quarantine, half of them reject it because it is simple and the rest because it is practical. No plan, they argue, can be good if it is "available to everybody...
...four or five hospital beds per 1,000 persons ip some states, with ten or eleven in others), and 2) high medical costs (some 10% of American families spend more than $500 a year for medical care, and the national average is $200). Said the message: "While continuing to reject Government regulation of medicine, we shall with vigor and imagination continously search out by appropriate means, recommend, and put into effect new methods of achieving better health for all of our people...
...height of largesse time, Illinois' Senator Paul Douglas suggested a rule for politicos to follow in deciding whether to accept Christmas gifts from lobbyists and such. His advice: "It is suicide for elected officials to reject all gifts. People would think you were weaned on a pickle and lack the human juices . . . When gifts arrive, if they appear to be worth more than $2.50, they are sent back ... I don't think there is much chance of a Senator being corrupted...
...There is one underlying cause common to every case of true homosexuality: the individual has failed to "identify," as psychiatrists put it, with the parent of the same sex. In normal development a young boy wants to be substantially like his father, and things go wrong when a boy rejects his father as an ideal. If the father is a dominating, bullying type, the boy is likely to prefer, and tend to identify himself with, his mother's yielding tenderness. If father is a henpecked weakling, the boy will reject him and resolve to avoid his mistake of falling...
Looking at their heavy surplus four months ago, U.S. wheat farmers voted to let the government set strict quotas on their 1954 crop (TIME, Aug. 24). Last week it was the cotton farmer's turn to vote on acceptance of quotas and 90% parity, or reject them and get only a 50% parity price prop. The result: a record 94% vote for quotas and price props, well over the two-thirds needed...