Word: stratum
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...majority that did not know it was a majority. Suddenly a few things seem to be going right. This is encouragement to Nixon; this is what his kind of people can do. There is something to be said for it. There is some praise due all those middle-stratum Americans who do the best they know how, trying to do what is honorable-or at least what they think is honorable...
...population, the answer is yes. For another 50%, medical care can be described as passable, but it is certainly not as good as it could and should be. For 25%, care is either inexcusably bad, given in humiliating circumstances, or nonexistent. The breakdown is not simply by social stratum: the rich do not necessarily get the best care, nor the poor the worst. Says Dr. William H. Stewart, Surgeon General of the U.S. Public Health Service: "If even one American doesn't have access to a reasonable level of care, there's something wrong. And when millions don't, there...
...real" man? In common with oth ers who have devoted much of their adult lives to politics, Humphrey and Nixon are like geological formations, created, stratum upon stratum, by deposits of history and evolution-their own and the world's-over decades...
...Body. Until all this happened, Trudeau was not even listed in the Canadian Who's Who. His life was sheltered and private. He mixed in the rich English and French dinner-party circuit in Montreal and Ottawa, gathered around him people who were either from the same wealthy stratum of society or academically brilliant...
...Sorbonne's amphitheaters became forums for discussion groups in session 24 hours a day. Nearly every conceivable subject was discussed. People from every stratum of French society came from all parts of Paris to join in. The discussions were guided only by the principle painted everywhere on the Sorbonne's walls: "It is prohibited to prohibit!" The courtyard became a bazaar representing the whole spectrum of the world's left. Overnight, at least ten newspapers appeared-some mimeographed and others printed at cost by sympathetic outside publishers. Peking-style posters covered the courtyard walls. One poster read...