Word: supporter
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bitten value, and the less he attempted to cut down functions he once thought he might eliminate. This year he tried hard to make the case for a long-term foreign-aid program before a meat-ax-minded Congress, and, with a sizable assist from the President, won impressive support for his case (although Congress has yet to vote the requested $3.8 billion appropriation...
...dissident factions, told each what he thought they wanted to hear (including Nehru-type neutralism), won local elections in East Pakistan and recouped his personal prestige. One day last September Suhrawardy was called in by President Iskander Mirza (who more or less runs Pakistan with army and civil-service support), was installed as Premier of what Mirza calls "controlled democracy...
...Parpalaid in the village of St. Maurice, quickly finds that not only are his patients virtually non-existent, but also that the few he possesses have already paid their bills (which they do annually) to his predecessor. By a series of "free" consultations and by engaging the support of influential citizens, however, Knock buffaloes the rural characters with a bewildering description of their maladies. No one escapes the cryptic medical language and anatomical charts which the doctor employs to convince the strapping citizens of their multiple ills...
...Theology warned a little snappishly that Protestant unity can not and should not be had just for the wishing. "Luncheon clubs, convinced that 'the more we get together the happier we are,' and Hindu philosophers, convinced that all religions are routes to the same destination, can logically support this vague, diffuse type of unity, but Christians cannot. One perennial cause of misunderstanding about the ecumenical movement is that the lay public innocently supposes that this is the 'nature of the unity we seek,' and then cannot comprehend why we waste so much time 'negotiating...
Most economists are well aware that the problem of inflation is far too complex to be laid at the door of any one group. Dozens of factors contribute, such as high Government spending, support prices for farmers and other subsidized groups, and a faster turnover of loan funds to offset the Federal Reserve Bank's tight-money policy. And in a new study, the Bureau of Labor Statistics points out that prices have actually led wages upward during most of the postwar period...