Nanny State (1952)

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NANNY STATE--175,000 Google hits, 33,000 Google Groups hits
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I should have checked "sloppy joe," but I was busy.
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Henry Stern's latest essay includes "nanny state":
Only one witness spoke at the public hearing.  As luck would have it,  it was 
your reporter, who, in the two minutes allotted to him delivered what he  
thought was a spirited attack on the proposed new rule restricting subway  
riders' changing cars.  "We are creating a nanny state," he warned, using a  
pejorative phrase which indicates an objection to government interference  with  an 
activity usually regarded as traditionally within the discretion  of a sane 
adult individual.
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(GOOGLE)
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_http://www.thefreedictionary.com/nanny%20state_ 
(http://www.thefreedictionary.com/nanny%20state) 
nanny state  
n. Informal  
A government perceived as having excessive interest in or  control over the 
welfare of its citizens, especially in the enforcement of  extensive public 
health and safety regulations.
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(OED)
nanny state orig. and chiefly  Brit., the government or its policies viewed 
as overprotective or as  interfering unduly with personal choice. 
1965 _I. MACLEOD_ (http://dictionary.oed.com/help/bib/oed2-m.html#i-macleod)  
in Spectator 26 Feb. 255/3 The London County Council is dying, but the spirit 
of the  *Nanny State fights on. 1994 Guardian 22 Oct. 40/4 There were  
concerns voiced about the potential for unscrupulous salesmen to take advantage  of 
the public. These were brushed aside by ministers, convinced that they were  
symptoms of the ‘nanny  state’.
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(NEWSPAPERARCHIVE)
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     _The Sheboygan Press_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Viewer.aspx?img=0Hv62RLHvjKKID/6NLMW2rWRz0Y446NYvzL3aV4G8OpqsC6fUmwfvw==)  _Friday, June 06, 
1952_ (http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search=)  _Sheboygan,_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="nanny+state"+AND+cityid:26604+AN
D+stateid:103+AND+range:1753-1975)   _Wisconsin_ 
(http://www.newspaperarchive.com/Search.aspx?Search="nanny+state"+AND+stateid:103+AND+range:1753-1975)   
...are turning  Britain itself into a NANNY-STATE, perhaps out of long  
habit.....also filled the role of headmaster, or NANNY-governess,  ilt is an  
amusing..