Word: combative
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Lamar Winter is a kind of Uncle Tom in reverse. He wears the chips on his shoulders like epaulets, is always combat-ready for the slurs, or worse, of what he regards as the inevitable war between the races. Incidents multiply. The community swimming pool is drained after Lamar's nine-year-old son takes a dip. His wife is bloodied by a bullyboy's stone. The most vicious pressure of all is applied against Lamar by a member of his own race, a Mr. Barton, who acts as a "blockbuster," attempting to spread panic among the whites...
...began specializing in hotels, he has built $100 million worth of hotels around the world. His latest: the Ponce in Puerto Rico. He now has another $200 million worth in the works. His hotels are noted for being profitable, but to make them so he has had to combat a host of ancient building restrictions that do not recognize the virtues of modern cost-cutting materials and methods. Since building costs have skyrocketed (the Washington Statler Hilton built before World War II cost $6,700 a room; the Pittsburgh Hilton, finished late last year, cost $12,500 a room), Tabler...
...planned obsolescence" has gone too far; that the annual addition of frills and fripperies takes money that could be better used to improve quality. "Certainly in cars," says International Harvester Vice President Mark Keeler. "the cost of restyling is a waste. From a performance standpoint, it contributes nothing." To combat rising labor and material costs, some manufacturers have tried to save by taking a chance on materials that often turn out to be inferior. On the other hand, the very productivity and ingenuity of U.S. industry has created quality problems: ten years ago, when a housewife had only...
...school he hated games, feared the roughhousing and hazing that passed for manliness. When he was challenged to fight, he cravenly told his challenger that his mother was ill and that he had no stomach for combat. When World War I came, his very name became a trial. Originally it had been Dutch, but now his schoolmates sang...
...student organization, formed to combat the leftist tendencies which Goldwater maintained exist at non-fraternity colleges, originally planned to parade to the post-office, waving signs proclaiming, "Boy, Do We Have Faith" and "Rights for the Rights...