Word: attachments
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House. So long as students are free to leave, the Houses will have an incentive to maintain themselves as the pleasant, genial dwellings they are generally known to be. As President Lowell wrote several decades ago, to permit students to rent apartments "has been thought wiser than to attach to the Houses any sense of compulsion or to make residence there other than a privilege...
...West will have more votes than the Midwest and the Northeast at Miami Beach (682 to 634). But he would have drawbacks. Said a former Goldwater stalwart in New Hampshire: "Reagan might be nice, but he will have a big liability from the nut faction-they'll all attach themselves to him and hurt his image. Unless we win over the independent, we'll be in trouble again...
...cargo-handling equipment. Early in 1961, Stone's old boss at Monogram offered to sell him and Karp a controlling interest in the company, which, as Stone had fore seen, was going bankrupt. In addition to sanitation equipment, Monogram was manufacturing temporary production holding devices used to attach unbolted metal sheets to the frames of jets, along with precision sheet metal and containers. A quick and drastic surgical job was essential if the company was to be saved. The container division was eliminated. Managers' salaries were cut by 25%, and a bonus based on profit was substituted...
...London, privies were called Jerichos; Boswell went to bed with Rousseau's wife precisely 13 times. The Durants can scarcely resist an anecdote or an aphorism. The borrowed ones are usually the best, as for instance Diderot's Encyclopédie distinction between the words bind and attach: "One is bound to one's wife, attached to one's mistress." But the authors also do reasonably well on their own, as when they say of Louis XV that he "lacked the art of dying in due time...
...simple fact that many Americans in 1967 view Communist-backed popular insurrecitons in underdeveloped nations in almost the same manner they viewed Premier Khrushchev's promise to "bury" us in the late 1950s. This is not to say that most Americans attach the same importance to a jungle outpost 10,000 miles away they do to the holding of the holding of the garrison in West Berlin...