Word: chaffing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city. He calls his administration a "wild show" and pur sues his quest for "visible government" by ranging the city day and night, turn ing up at fires and theater openings, dropping into police stations and art galleries, presiding at Waldorf banquets with bigwigs and at street-corner chaf-ferings with slum constituents. He has, in fact, an excess of both zeal and guts that has made him assault the city's gargantuan problems with reckless disregard for his own standing. In his many tilts with the city's plodding, 300,000-man bureaucracy and other reform-resistant...
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