Word: dweller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Manhattan apartment dweller, Shnayerson found that his car and its insurance were getting too expensive to justify the trouble of hunting down parking places. "I took direct action," he says. "I drove the bloody thing to the Sanitation Department instead of leaving it on the street-one of maybe five or six citizens who made the effort that year. And on delivering the car, which was still in good running shape, I was met by disbelieving Sanitation men who tried to persuade me either to keep it, sell it, or give it to them. Then they saw I was serious...
Harvard basketball tumbled into ignominy last night at the IAB. Following weekend losses to Penn and Princeton the listless, disorganized Crimson five suffered the ultimate Ivy League disgrace--a 65-60 loss to perennial cellar-dweller Dartmouth...
Shakers v. Smoothers. Clinton Rossiter categorizes Presidents as either earthshakers or earth-smoothers. Johnson's emphasis on consensus and conciliation, his efforts to bring businessman and laborer, black and white, city dweller and dirt farmer into his big tent, all seem to mark him as a smoother...
...nation. True, hunger stalks half the world, but the U.S. farmer will not gain much by giving food away-the good feeling one gets from acts of charity will not help pay off the implement and fertilizer companies. Perhaps what concerns me the most is that a city slum dweller with an income of less than $3,000 a year becomes a prime target for the War on Poverty; but a farmer with a net income of less than $3,000 a year is part of a "coddled minority...
...argument that appeals to critics of all persuasions is that the nation needs to "reorder its priorities." As envisioned by the Urban Coalition and other responsible groups concerned with improving the lot of the Negro slum dweller, any such redefinition of national values would involve a far more vigorous effort, both moral and economic, to deal with the problems of the cities...