Care Package (Rebroadcast) - 4 September 2023

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🗓️ 4 September 2023

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Sending someone a care package shows you care, of course. But the first care packages were boxes of food and personal items for survivors of World War II. They were from the Committee for American Remittances to Europe, the acronym for which is CARE. Also: Montgomery, Alabama, is home to the new National Memorial for Peace and Justice. This profoundly moving structure commemorates the thousands of African-Americans lynched between 1877 and 1950 in acts of racial terror. The word lynch itself goes back another century. And: a tender term in Arabic that celebrates the milestones of life. Plus high and dry, bought the ranch, neighbor spoofing, afghan blankets, bumbye, gauming around, barking at a knot, taking the ten-toed mule, and a brain-teaser. Read full show notes, hear hundreds of free episodes, send your thoughts and questions, and learn more on the A Way with Words website: https://waywordradio.org/contact. Be a part of the show: call 1 (877) 929-9673 toll-free in the United States and Canada; worldwide, call or text/SMS +1 (619) 800-4443. Email words@waywordradio.org. Twitter @wayword. Copyright Wayword, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	You're listening to a wait with words,
0:01.6	the show about language and how we use it.
0:03.6	I'm Grant Barrett.
0:04.7	And I'm Martha Barnett.
0:06.4	If you have a kid in college or a loved one overseas,
0:09.9	it's nice to send them a care package, right?
0:12.5	Because it shows that you care.
0:14.1	Care, care.
0:15.1	Exactly.
0:16.2	But you might be surprised to learn
0:17.9	that the care in care package started out as an acronym.
0:21.7	What?
0:22.5	In 1946, C-A-R-E stood for Cooperative
0:27.5	for American Remittances to Europe.
0:30.7	And this was an organization of civic groups
0:33.0	that had formed to fight poverty and hunger
0:36.3	in the wake of row or two.
0:38.6	And this organization called CARE
0:40.5	distributed millions of packages
0:42.5	that contain things like dried milk and canned meat
0:45.7	and margarine.
0:46.5	Yeah.
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