Word: fared
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Kind of Victory. Still, it was pretty thin fare for a crusade that set for itself no less a task than the conquest of poverty. No doubt the goals were too ambitious. Between the exaggerated aims set forth in overblown speeches by the campaign's leaders and a hardening attitude on the part of Congress, there was no middle ground, and disappointment was the inevitable result...
...were to maintain this double standard." Then, in an event both startling and significant for a country in political hibernation for a decade, Thai university students took to the streets for their first political-protest demonstration in eleven years-initially against martial law, then against a bus-fare hike and high rice and pork prices. Ignoring the warnings of police, several thousand marched on the National Assembly building, on their way pushing down hastily erected metal barriers and hurling them into a canal. The police, backed by fire trucks, were at first stunned into inaction by the unusual sight...
Such remarks are regular fare for Dick Tracy fans, but this one proved a bit too much for many readers who wrote to the papers to complain; some made the obvious point that Sirhan Sirhan probably thought that he was employing violence to "put down evil." Some editors reacted as strongly as readers. As soon as he got a glimpse of the offending Tracyism, Donald Brazier, assistant managing editor of the Seattle Times, had it chipped from the printing plate. The Los Angeles Times ran a sampling of some 100 letters it had received criticizing the strip, then added that...
HOLLAND FESTIVAL (June 15-July 9) takes place in four Dutch cities. Its imaginative programming includes four concerts devoted entirely to works of Berg, Schoenberg and Webern, played by The Hague Residentie Orchestra under Pierre Boulez in Scheveningen; three Debussy cycles in Amsterdam, Rotterdam and The Hague. More conventional fare by the Concertgebouw Orchestra; dance and opera (from Rameau's Platée to Schoenberg's Moses and Aaron) is also offered...
...doing market research and peddling fad items. Last year, for example, they sold 55,000 paper dresses in 27 days for Mars Manufacturing Co., topped that by selling 100,000 personality and psychedelic wall posters (at $1 each). At a higher level, the company sold 105,000 youth air-fare identification cards for American Airlines-and kept $2 of the $3 price of each card for its effort. To help manufacturers boost sales of everyday products, N.S.M.C. "reps" place soft-sell posters on strategically located bulletin boards. In one such campaign, Alka-Seltzer offered to send a "cramming pillow...