Word: fink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Junior" Dempsey told a reviewer, "is how teen-agers are fixing their own problems up. You see, a lot of people would think that Pete--he's the one who squeals to the other gang to stop the rumble--well, a lot of people would think he's a fink. But he's only trying to help them out. So, you see, the point is there is no such thing as a fink...
...even in the face of proclaimed company antitrust regulations, they were obliged to break them just to hold their jobs. Said Paul Hartig, former general manager of G.E.'s insulator department: "It was a way of life. It was part of the job." G.E.'s George R. Fink, former sales manager of the medium-voltage department, who was ordered by his superior to meet with the competitors, went over his boss's head to complain and was told "it was necessary I talk to competitors about prices. I was against doing anything illegal and I still...
...Hindemith's Sonata for Alto Horn and Piano, followed it with a Ruff-Mitchell composition titled Fugue for a Jazz Trio. The club features a regular string quartet from Yale, and will draw heavily on the talents of such Yale faculty members as Violinist Howard Boatwright, Pianist Seymour Fink. Like their Cleveland counterparts, Ruff and Mitchell feel that the relaxed atmosphere of a club makes for ideal listening. "In a club," says Willie Ruff, "you never get the guy who sits down stiffly and says, 'O.K., so thrill...
...trying to show," said Dempsey, "is how teenagers are fixing their own problems up. You see, a lot of people would think that Pete--he's the one that squeals to the other gang to stop the rumble--well, a lot of people would think he's a fink. But he's only trying to help them out. So, you see, the point is, there is no such thing as a fink...
...inclination and declaration, old Bill Hulet is close kin to such folk heroes as Pecos Bill, Paul Bunyan and Mike Fink. And when there is boasting to be done, Bill will talk as loud and as long as any ring-tailed roarer that ever lived. "Born under a stump, suckled on sow bear milk and raised in jail," he proclaims. "I know every root in these parts, every huckleberry meadow, bee tree, strand of swamp grass and skunk-cabbage patch. To hunt bears, you've got to be as tough as a good old bear dog. Well...