Word: reliant
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Phillips sees signs in a few polls that middle-class Americans are ready to ! reject Reagan's era of neglect toward the poor. But, so far, signs of any sort of populism are scant, even among Democrats who presumably would harness it. The U.S., still largely dominated by self-reliant escapees of a stratified Europe, has been disinclined to believe that Government should help narrow the gap between rich and poor. Only 29% favor the idea, according to a recent poll. The concept became particularly distasteful in the 1960s, when the push for civil rights redefined equality largely in racial...
Since Harvard undergraduates are taught to be self-reliant, some counselors say, they tend not to admit problems to professionals or friends because such actions could be interpreted as signs of failure...
...veteran film publicist terms today's gossip columnists "more professional than they used to be, more fact oriented, less careless, less reliant on hearsay." In Winchell's day, he notes, columnists ran more blind items in which no names were used, and thus were more apt to take a chance on a tip. Today's scribes are more likely to seek confirmation, though they will still rely on a hunch. Last fall Washington Times gossip writer Charlotte Hays heard that actress Kelly McGillis, who had signed for the season at the Shakespeare Theater at the Folger, was pregnant and would...
...black Stinson Reliant of fabric and spruce rests on the floor, seemingly poised for takeoff. You took your first flight in one of those graceful monoplanes in 1935. The last of the barnstormers out of Omaha had dropped in on a harvested alfalfa field. For $l.50 you rumbled through the stubble and jolted off into the air, choked with awe and fear. Above the old town, you could see the high school and your home and beyond them the vast, quilted cropland. Your world and the way you looked at it changed forever. The pilot, casual in his open, checked...