Word: badgers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reporting and research fell to people who brought a high degree of expertise to the task: Bureau Chiefs Roger Stone (Rio), Gavin Scott (Buenos Aires), Mo Garcia (Caracas); Stringers Tomas Loayza (Lima) and Jorge Jurado (Quito); Washington Correspondent Jerry Hannifin; New York Researchers Berta Gold, Erika Kraemer and Priscilla Badger. Obviously expert in his craft, if not necessarily in the area, was the man who took the color photographs, J. Alex Langley, who covered the vast and rugged area by truck, Jeep, horse, helicopter, DC-3, and one sortie in a Grumman Goose piloted by a Franciscan priest...
...small group of Harvard Law School students is conducting a campaign to badger Senator Barry Goldwater while he stumps for the Republican presidential nomination in New Hampshire...
...riot in June 1954 injured some 50 persons, forced Liberal Premier Shigeru Yoshida to cancel a long-planned trip to the U.S. and apologize to the Emperor. Survivors of that fight recall the arrival of an opposition leader, Bu-kichi ("Big Badger") Miki, who vehemently objected to Western dress and always wore a kimono. He showed up for the fight dressed in army fatigues and combat boots, explained to colleagues that "you can't kick with a kimono on, you know...
...moment of fantasy: a critic, who has never ceased his sniping, is summarily taken up into the balcony and hanged. Reality again: everyone leaves the theater and a caravan takes them to an eerie Cape Canaveral set for the film, which is to be a science-fiction movie. Reporters badger Mastroianni once more, and he crawls under a table and shoots himself. This clears his head once and for all, and in a moment of revelation he sees that the way to turn chaos into creativity is to stop brooding about the hobgoblins of his dreams and to start working...
...handful of his most trusted associates. He controlled TWA until December 1960, when he was forced by a group of New York banks and insurance companies to place his stock in trusteeship in return for a $165 million loan to buy jets for TWA. When Hughes began to badger Charles Tillinghast, TWA's new, trustee-appointed president, Tillinghast fought back by suing Hughes for damages. Hughes countersued, charging Tillinghast and the lenders with conspiring to take TWA away from...