Word: weal
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...U.D.C.A. meant Pierre Poujade, the rabble-rousing bookseller, and his ragtag crusade against taxes, politicians and parliamentary government. Though the Poujadists had entered more candidates (about 800) than any other party, had disrupted countless meetings with storms of vituperation and vegetables, and generally raised welts on the public weal, the experts had not taken young Pierre Poujade and his bray-voiced "antis" very seriously. But Poujade's bully-boy movement of shopkeepers, farmers, artisans and small businessmen won 52 seats...
...Americans . . . But there are different ways of reaching that goal . . ." The way Harry thought the Eisenhower Administration was heading was clear. Said he: "I don't want to see anyone take us back to the old ways of greed and arrogance and indifference to the public weal which we rejected 20 years ago. Because I know, if those days return, we shall lose our strength at home and our moral leadership abroad, and the path will lead to depression and destruction...
Citation: "In recognition of his New England decorum and quiet firmness in high office, his leadership in the American acceptance of world responsibility, and his probity in all matters concerned with the public weal...
...only hope for the survival of the privately supported American college and university lies in the willingness of corporate wealth to furnish in moderation some support to institutions which are so essential to public welfare, and therefore . . . to corporate welfare. What promotes the general good inescapably advances the corporate weal...
...their backs creaked beneath the violent tugging of bold hands, and the sweat flowed down in streams; and many a weal, red with blood, sprang up along their ribs and shoulders; and ever they strove amain for victory...