Word: toryism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Great Society social engineering of the '60s has obviously left many Americans with a sour sense that such is not always the case -although others may argue that the reforms simply did not go far enough. In any case, the Journal, more in the spirit of 18th century toryism, will now use such words as revision and change -a more neutral vocabulary. Oliver Goldsmith caught the spirit with his couplet in The Traveller...