Word: socializing
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...million to show for 1948, but Cripps explained that he could not actually spend this money. It had all been used up, mostly to wipe out some of the huge national debts. The biggest items in the budget were expenditures for defense and cradle-to-the-grave social security. Cripps smashed the rosy Socialist dream that the "welfare state" could be paid for entirely by soaking the rich. The rich were now all but soaked, and it was Britain's plain people who would have to pay for their "free" medical and social services. They would pay through high...
Said he: "When I hear people speaking of reducing taxation, and, at the same time, see the costs of the social services rising rapidly, in response very often to the demands of the same people, I sometimes rather wonder whether they appreciate to the full the old adage that 'we cannot have our cake...
...Cairo, at a 200-acre fair displaying Egypt's latest advances in science, technology and social welfare, the recently divorced and remarried Princess Fawzia and her sister, Faiza, turned up as unscheduled exhibits of the very best in Egyptian pulchritude...
...weeks Mike's parents shared a 24-hour vigil by his bedside. His father gave up his job as an auto repairman, his mother turned over the care of her other five children to a social worker. The hospital set up a special kitchen so that Mrs. Rector could cook the protein-rich eggs and hamburgers her son required to build up his ravaged tissue, coax him into eating...
...enrolled in a course of study since the Fall term of 1948 or earlier. He must also be majoring in what the State Department calls "a technical field," and he will be required to sign a pledge to return to China when his education is finished. Students concentrating in Social Sciences and Humanities will not be considered for grants...