Word: xix
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pigeons fluttered skyward. The blazing torch arrived-borne for the first time by a woman, Mexico's 20-year-old Norma Enriqueta Basilio Sotelo-to end a 10,000-mile odyssey that started at Olympia. After a final 21-gun salute, the games of the XIX Olympiad were officially under...
...Title XIX of the 1965 Social Security amendments put the Federal Government in the position of matching, on a sliding scale, payments made by the states for the medical care of the indigent-meaning essentially those receiving welfare payments. The law went further, enabling states to create a new class of "medically indigent"-those able to feed, house and clothe themselves, but who would neglect their medical and dental care because of difficulty in meeting even routine bills and who would be pauperized by the costs of a major illness...
Dubbed Medicaid, Title XIX left it up to the states until 1970 to decide whether they wanted any part of the plan. It also left it to the states to decide which of their citizens should be classed as indigent or medically indigent and entitled to benefits. If a state wanted to tap the U.S. Treasury, it had to provide coverage for a minimum of five essential services-in-patient and out-patient hospital care, doctors' care, X rays, lab tests and nursing-home benefits. Optional frills included home health services, dental care, eyeglasses, drugs, physiotherapy, private-duty nursing...
Except for naturopaths, so did New York, which classed a family of four with $6,000 a year as medically indigent. New York was already providing most of the recommended services at its own expense. By signing up under Title XIX, it got a federal windfall of $217 million for one year...
...John McLaurin and Benjamin ("Pitchfork Ben") Tillman, both South Carolina Democrats, who exchanged insults-then blows-on the Senate floor in 1902, giving rise to Senate Rule XIX, which bars senatorial character assassination...