Word: flints
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...phrasemaker and aphorist gave him a reputation in the first month of the campaign. The Republican Party's slogan, he said, was to "throw the rascals in," and "as to their platform, well, nobody can stand on a bushel of eels." Discussing social security at Flint, Mich., he remarked: "Now as far as Republican leaders are concerned, this desire for a change is understandable. I suppose if I had been sewn up in the same underwear for 20 years I'd want a change...
...time down home in Wadesboro, N.C. reflecting steadily on the ingratitude of princes. Last week, before the Chelf subcommittee in Washington, he made it plain that he felt himself more to be pitied than censured, that his was the dilemma of the small-town boy who falls in with flint-eyed, big-city strangers and finds himself the fall guy when the cops knock down the door...
...flint attached to the hammer of the flintlock (the standard Revolutionary War weapon) strikes a fixed steel, sparking the priming powder in the open "pan" just below. The hammer of the caplock (patented early in the 19th century) explodes a small percussion...
Brothers & Stepping Stones. Encouraging the schools to serve the community has been the aim of the Mott Foundation since it first began its program in 1935. A onetime manufacturer of automobile axles who made a fortune in General Motors stock, Philanthropist Mott noted that Flint schoolchildren had little healthy recreation and almost no adult supervision once they got out of school each day. He decided to start a series of boys' clubs to provide after-school meeting places, andthe Mott Foundation was born...
...foundation can afford to do quite a bit of last-resorting. But that is only the start of its work. By its alliance with the Board of Education, the foundation has turned the schools into neighborhood centers, given hundreds of teachers a chance to earn extra money, and made Flint more community-conscious than ever before...