Word: wente
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...went through almost exactly the same ritual a year ago to spring Commander Lloyd Bucher and the 81 other surviving Pueblo crewmen. However laudable the end, the routine is disquieting: a nation's word ought not to be solemnly pledged and then disavowed. Yet the technique has the virtue of saving face for both sides, and suggests that the U.S. may be acquiring the sophistication of Oriental civilizations. There may be a touch of this in President Nixon, who combines rhetoric about success in Viet Nam with steady U.S. troop withdrawals...
...malnutrition emergency in this country today," resolved the conference. "Therefore, the President must immediately declare that a national hunger emergency exists and, under existing authority, must now free funds and implement programs to feed all hungry Americans this winter." After sounding that clarion for the immediate future, the conference went on to insist that "the overriding remedy for hunger and malnutrition is a minimum guaranteed adequate cash income with a floor of $5,500 annually (for a family of four).1' The delegates also called for expansion and reform of existing food programs; the creation of a plan...
...itself for all time.' Speaking for this Administration, I not only accept that responsibility, I claim the responsibility." In the same speech, however, Nixon betrayed a certain insensitivity in an anecdote that unwittingly underlined the vast gulf between the affluent and the hungry in America. Once when he went on a diet, Nixon told the meeting, "the doctor had told me to eat cottage cheese. The difficulty is that I don't like cottage cheese. I took his advice, but I put catsup on it." The catsup story did not go down well with the poor, whose problem...
Around 9 a. m., about 60 students raced down Quincy Street, blocking traffic, and went into the Faculty Club through the back door, surprising a sprinkling of Faculty members who were eating breakfast and about 15 employees who had come to work...
Friedman was critical of Government welfare policies. He said that "Government policies have interfered with the effectiveness of capitalism, a system that has proven to make poor people rich." He went further to say." Present policies to help poor people are making them even poorer." He recommended that we go beyond what Nixon has proposed in reforming the welfare system...