Word: weal
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Nonplussed, Attorney Ironside could not but be a weak apologist, based the defense on moral issues. In developing Associated, said he, Hopson had worked tirelessly for the common weal. He was a creature of the wildcat '20s, should be judged in the light of those times...
Demagogues and despots are alike the foes of the common weal. But between them is the possibility of democratic leaders democratically chosen and democratically responsible to the community they serve...
...also mindful that I have made no direction as to charities. . . . I am aware of the charitable disposition of my wife and she can be trusted to do her share. . . . As to the disposition of my body: I have decided definitely that it is infinitely better for the common weal and particularly for the comfort of my nearest relatives that it should be cremated...
Every session of Congress is punctuated by the sniping of seven main sugar groups at each other and the public weal. As the balance of power has worked out since 1934, the Mountain beet lobby has grudgingly accepted something between a 1,342,000 and 1,584,000 ton quota. Another 4,700,000 has gone to the refiners of imported cane, allocated as follows: 2,000,000 tons to Cuba, whose cheap cane competes with domestic beet after paying a .9? tariff; the rest to four duty-free areas, the Philippines (nearly 1,000.000 tons), Puerto Rico...