Word: bum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems impossible to deny," Ford said, "that a war of ill-defined aims, of ill-defined scope, involving some weapons which apparently do not meet minimum requirements--such a war is a bum...
Dean Ford yesterday made his first public statement on the Vietnamese conflict and emphatically labeled it "a bum...
...state house of representatives since the district was formed in 1953. The reputation of Hoffa pere, which might have been fatal in many constituencies, was a boon in the 19th, with its large population of union members, many of whom feel the imprisoned Teamster boss got a bum rap. The Teamsters and the United Auto Workers went all out to elect young Hoffa, who even won kind words from Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Senator Robert Kennedy when they were in town...
...Progress. But the authors usually share a common conviction. More often than not they are men who regard themselves as unjustly condemned. In that company, Jailbird Jean Genet is a rarity; he has no complaint against society at large, nor does he whine that he took a bum rap. His latest book, Miracle of the Rose, is neither by an outsider looking in nor an insider look-ing out. Imprisoned for theft, Genet belonged behind bars-not only legally but spiritually. He writes of the tightly controlled little world of Fontevrault State prison as if it were the world...
...movie, based on a novel by Vicki Baum, was a gaudy old fleabag with a startling number of star boarders: Greta Garbo, the Barrymore brothers, Joan Crawford, Wallace Beery, Lewis Stone, Jean Hersholt. The new movie, based on a 1965 bestseller by Arthur Hailey that was little more than bum Baum, transposes the premises from Berlin to New Orleans but still provides the customers with a generous supply of clean towels and dirty people...