Word: socialize
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million Americans now under Social Security (and another 35 million more if Social Security is expanded) would be entitled to complete medical, surgical, dental and hospital care. Even eyeglasses, false teeth, glass eyes, artificial arms & legs would be provided, as under Britain's new socialized medicine...
Everything seemed to be going wrong at Bonn. The Social Democratic Party bitterly fought the Western Powers' "interference" in the work of the constitutional convention because it tended to impose too many limitations upon German sovereignty. The Western Allies, cried the Socialists, were trying to create a federal republic with such a weak central government that it could never properly govern. The Socialists were equally mad at their fellow Germans in the Christian Democratic Union, which was stringing along with the plans for a weaker government. At a Socialist meeting in Hannover last week, gaunt, one-armed, one-legged...
...victory in 1944, and by 1948 he was a shoo-in for Governor. In both campaigns he told his people that their old obsession about political status, i.e., whether they should demand U.S. statehood or national independence, was not a valid issue. The real issue, he insisted, was the social and economic welfare of the Puerto Rican people...
Breakfast-table education, every now and then, turns into breakfast-table poppycock and drivel. Recently, for instance, this newspaper printed a story about a student who wrote a C-plus hour examination in a Social Relations course in which he was not enrolled, had done no reading, and had been to no lectures. This accomplishment has brought on, along with the jokes, a lot of serious talk. But very little of this talk has come anywhere near the point brought out by the case...
...fraction that had missed the point can be called the Anti-Social Relations Set. This group has adopted the C-plus saga as a proof that all Social Relations courses are ludicrously obvious in their content and ridiculously easy to pass. To this group one need only say, flatly, "Gentlemen, you are wrong;" to argue the value of courses in fields such as sociology and psychology would be more to patronize the Social Relations Department than to defend...