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This kind of Micawberism has driven the city so deep into the red that debt service accounted for 35% of 1967's property-tax revenues and threatens to devour more than half by 1975.

From Time Magazine Archive

Instead, the city reacted with a characteristic blend of hoopla, voodoo and Micawberism.

From Time Magazine Archive

There was an ingenuousness about the proceedings on the part of our Government that was startling in its Micawberism and improvidence.

From Experiences of a Dug-out, 1914-1918 by Callwell, C. E. (Charles Edward), Sir