Word: deigned
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...Finch hit back, saying that the charges "grossly distort the position of this Administration in the mental-health area." Furthermore, he declared, "Dr. Yolles has consistently shown a complete unwillingness to cooperate in this department's planning for more effective mental-health programs. Rarely, if ever, did he deign to participate or communicate with others in the department in efforts to bring better help to the mentally...
Disenchantment with ungrateful recipients and competing pressures on the federal treasury have steadily diminished American enthusiasm for helping less fortunate lands. Congress did not deign until the end of January, several months later than usual, to pass the aid appropriation for the present fiscal year. When it finally got around to what was obviously an unwelcome duty, it made the total only $1.8 billion-the smallest amount in the 22 years of foreign aid since the Marshall Plan was launched. Last week, to save foreign aid from withering away, a 16-man presidential task force headed by Rudolph Peterson, retired...
...would be good for the economy's efficiency. But any politician who says that even 5% unemployment is tolerable flirts with disaster. The nation is committed to relatively full employment and, though the jobless rate inched up to 4.2% last month, employers still have trouble finding anyone who will deign to take a position considered boring or menial. Turnover of workers runs high in the Post Office, with disastrous effects upon efficiency, because few Americans will accept jobs that require work at night or on weekends. Some restaurateurs are hiring the mentally retarded because they are the only people willing...