Word: social
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Thus Pollster Gallup's problem is: 1) to work out the proportions of the barrel, i.e., determine the true social, political and economic complexion of the U.S. people; 2) choose his handful (people to be interviewed) accordingly; 3) make sure that the two correspond exactly...
...Workers Are Us." Alcide de Gasperi, looking happier than he had in years, cried with shaking voice: "We are not reactionaries. Every social reform which has been promised will be made." Of the Popular Front's 8,000.000 voters he said: "We are working to convert them." He also indicated that Italy would join the Western Union, but hoped that her peace treaty would first be softened...
Except for their political tenacity, there were few obvious resemblances between Canada's King and Britain's Walpole. King, grandson of William Lyon Mackenzie, who in 1837 led a futile rebellion against the tight clique ruling Upper Canada, began his career as a social worker. Walpole, to the manor born, worked for the good of the landed gentry. A high liver, a great man for the ladies, he was also a follower of the hounds. Bachelor Mackenzie King lives austerely. Though he has been known to ride, he would be miserable in a pink coat...
...four weeks of hot & cold debate, the delegates from 55 member nations had done considerable deriding of each other's definitions of freedom. But they had also drafted some new international law, subject to approval by their parliamentary parents (U.N.'s Economic & Social Council, the General Assembly, and participating nations). The major proposals...
...both a wit and a bore ("Nobody bored him," said Violet Hunt, "he took care of that. . ."); his reputation for incomprehensibility ("Poor old James," said George Meredith, "he sets down on paper these mysterious rumblings in his bowels -but who could be expected to understand them?"); his reputation for social snobbery, and his reputation for knowing women only by observation and fancy-such were the handicaps he struggled against...