Word: bargainer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro applicants who score low on white-oriented aptitude tests are not necessarily unfit for college, he has relaxed entrance requirements, abandoned rigid grading and allowed students to proceed at their own pace, graduating in anywhere from three to six years. When critics suggest that he is indulging in "bargain basement" education, Cheek retorts: "We had not a thing in the world to lose. We weren't going anywhere at the time...
Hundreds of college students and teachers, many of them from the Boston area, have been victimized by a fraudulent offer of charter flights to Puerto Rico at bargain prices, according to New York State Attorney General Lewis J. Lefkowitz...
...staged some 1,000 incidents over the last year, and killed or wounded over 900 Israelis. When a school bus struck one of their mines last March, 28 children were wounded and two adults killed. In August, the guerrillas managed to terrorize the population of Jerusalem and in the bargain set off an anti-Arab riot by a series of grenade attacks. In September, they struck for the first time at Tel Aviv, where a commando bomb in a wastebasket outside the bus station killed one Israeli and wounded another...
...last covered bridge to avoid paying the $3000 needed to keep it in good repair. The town selectmen, however, have different ideas, and manage to swing the meeting over to their side, by reminding them of other possible costs. Cooke writes, $3.000, it was suddenly discovered, looked like a bargain. So they voted it, in theory to preserve the "old wooden covered bridge," in fact as an insurance premium against damage suits and as a bait to hook the nibbling "historical element." In a way, the passage describes not the preservation of a covered bridge, but rather the preservation...
...regarded that as a nostalgic and unrealistic notion, and refused to believe that Saigon meant it. Thus, when the showdown came in October, the South Vietnamese and the Americans suddenly discovered that they had misunderstood each other all along. The U.S. claimed that Saigon had backed out on the bargain at the last minute; the South Vietnamese maintained that they had never agreed to the deal in the first place...