Word: gain
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...being tough presents its own problems and offers no universal solution. Many youth--including many Black stone Rangers--will gain nothing from extra police power. There are limits to the persuasiveness even of pain. Moreover, being tough often leads authorities to take some action which only makes things worse. Excessive force--"brutality" -- embitters Rangers. Similarly, they gain no great respect for the law when slapped with exorbitant bonds for minor offenses or when they wind up on the raw end of a police "deal" --exchanging their guns, for example, for reduced charges in court; only the charges...
Ultimately, the New Leftists, like all Utopians, not only want to reform society: they really want to reform human nature. They want men to work not for gain or glory but for the satisfaction of contributing to the general good. In a broad sense, the movement is not political at all but religious. "We want to create a world in which love is more possible," says an S.D.S leader, Carl Oglesby. For all their rant and naivete, the New Radicals can sound strongly appealing. The fact that many of their proposals are impractical and that they lack a program...
...mayor of Cologne, but when the British took over the city, they fired him; they wanted someone more tractable than the strong-willed Adenauer. The experience, der Alte acidly reminded the British, was not a new one for him. Cologne's loss was Germany's gain; he entered national politics with the joung Christian Democratic Party, in 1949 squeaked in as Bonn's first Chancellor by a single-vote majority...
...foremost victim of last year's tight money. Though housing has clearly begun to climb back from its worst slump in almost a decade, the revival so far has been a bit sluggish. Last week the Commerce Department reported that March housing starts showed a mere 1.7% gain from their February doldrums, to an annual rate of 1,171,000 new houses and apartments. At that pace, the industry was barely bettering its performance during the last half of 1966. "It's easier to scare buyers away than to get 'em back," says Los Angeles Builder...
...this policy since he took over as Treasurer from Cabot '21 in 1965. A director of Middle South Utilities, he runs the Harvard endowment in much the same fashion as he runs the several mutual funds and other investment organizations which his office handles--for profit, not for social gain. Bennett doesn't sharply define a moral or legal standard he uses for investing Harvard's billion. "We wouldn't want to make money on a company involved in unethical practices," he says...