Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with the Kennedy charisma, the Peace Corps has had an easy time gobbling up most of the activists in this area. But ACCION has been doing some intensive local recruiting of its own. From its East Coast office at 17 Dunster Street in Cambridge, ACCION especially likes to bird-dog prospective Peace Corpsmen...
Despite Farley's statement, the dispute kept bubbling. Manhattan's Mount Sinai Hospital stopped buying Coke for its cafeteria. Nathan's Famous Hot Dog emporium on Coney Island and a New York theater chain threatened to do the same. The New York City Human Rights Commission even called for an investigation of Coca-Cola. At that point, Coca-Cola decided it had had enough pop shots. Farley announced that the company was awarding an Israeli franchise to Manhattan Banker Abraham Feinberg, who is also president of the Israel Development Corp., which promotes Bonds for Israel. The decision...
Roosevelt explained he did not think Senator Jacob Javits (R-N.Y.) would seek to defeat Rockefeller for the Republican nomination. "Javits would probably be better off with a Democratic governor," Roosevelt noted, "so that he could be top dog, just as Bobby Kennedy is better off with a Republican in Albany...
...Juniper's letter in defense of Austin [April 1]: Although "a little old Texas mouse" may be "a friendly critter," one that I happen to like, I was painfully surprised to find that a whole tribe of friendly critters had set up housekeeping in the oven, closets and dog-food bags in my brand-new house; they forced me, contrary to my inclinations, to start a trap-hunting campaign. To be sure, mousetraps are rather cheap in Texas: 19? a pair. In my years in Europe, New England and Tennessee, I have neither become acquainted with so many rodents...
...beginning with the 1970 models-or press for a tougher bill making it mandatory for the Secretary to lay down such standards beginning with the '68 models. In support of the harsher version, the committee called up a succession of educators, lawyers, Canadian legislators-and even Teamster Top Dog Jimmy Hoffa, who found himself in the unusual position of being a sympathetic witness in a congressional hearing. Calling for strict Government safety regulations for trucks as well as cars, Hoffa said: "If you leave it to somebody's discretion to pass minimum safety standards, there wouldn...