Word: succored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...life. Probably few terms have come back to haunt their progenitor more perniciously than this one. Whenever a sophisticated adolescent scents trouble from an authority figure, he tends to justify himself on the ground of validity of his "identity crisis," and on this basis, to demand acceptance and even succor. In a way, this perverse reaction points up Erikson's meaning which is in no way invalidated by its abuse. For Erikson points to the late adolescent's subjectivity, his seclusiveness, his rebellion against his environment as well as the opposites of these traits--his striving for intellectual understanding...
Normally the White House looks to the Senate for succor when House budget cutters get too frisky, but this year the Administration can hope for little Senate sympathy on foreign...
Post-banana man is turning to the halls of academe for succor. Or more precisely, the walls. A number of students have reported "turning on" by drinking small quantities of water left standing for 24 hours with strips of grape ivy bark...
...denounced the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare's stringent new guidelines for school desegregation received a sympathetic hearing only from other Southerners. But Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield has now joined in the criticism of HEW, apparently in the belief that continued prodding for integration anywhere will succor a white backlash everywhere. The result of Mansfield's statement that the department is pushing integration "too fast" can only be to slow down the pace of school desegregation in the South, -- a pace that is and has always been unconscionably slow...
President Johnson produced a foreign aid program last week that was as elaborately hedged as an Italian garden. It included bookkeeping dodges to make the price appear low, legislative innovations to soothe the Senate, new ideas to succor the hungry, sick and ignorant, and tightened controls to mollify at least some of the critics who regard all foreign aid as a colossal boondoggle. For the most part, it made sense...