Word: socialism
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lost all his credit in the company-financed pension fund unless he stayed with the company until he was 65 (or 60, if he had 30 years' service). If he quit his job before that (e.g., after 20 years' service), he was left with nothing but his Social Security...
...terms, sponsors of a new party (the old opposition parties are already discredited) must register, then wait three years for recognition-or well past the 1952 presidential elections. Even then a court can refuse to approve the party if the judge (a Peronista, of course) decides that it endangers "social peace" or incites to violence...
...They think in global terms-about Indonesia, Liberia and Main Street. So many wanted to learn about Russia that the college set up a Russian department. The classics major is just about extinct (one major in Latin last year, none in Greek). It is the time to be a social scientist and to be haunted by the woes of the world...
...answer to this question about Henry Yorke will be found in the novels of Henry Green, which now number seven and embrace an astonishingly wide reach of British life and customs. There are as many distinctive social classes in Britain as there are regions in the U.S., and most British novelists, no matter how imaginative and observant, are as incapable of portraying life in any strata other than their own as, say, a Brooklyn-bred novelist would be of showing how a tree grows in Independence, Mo. But the novels of Henry Green, which are still little known in Britain...
Divide & Conquer. In Manhattan, two ex-convicts who had joined forces to rob pretty Eleanor Joly were nabbed by police when they came around again to make separate social calls...