Word: goon
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...delegates which seemed to divide most of the European delegations into three groups--athletes, performers, and party members. And some acted as hatchet men for the Russians, the hard core East Germans for example, who were given control of the seminar programs far in advance, and the more impromptu "goon squad" tasks of removing unfriendly posters...
...women, the Communists' refusal to provide a meeting place, the scheduling of intriguing cultural events all day, and more, subtly, the invitations to all-night parties. Communication of meeting times and places (even when those were finally settled) was nearly impossible, and the direct action of goon squads made it no easier. At West Station, for example, a teaching fellow in anthropology, Karl Heider, was roughed up for carrying an information sign...
...Mack Parker (TIME. May 4 et seq.). Gartin was greeted by Barnett posters on every telephone pole: "Remember Hungary. Remember Little Rock. Remember the occupation of Poplarville by J. P. Coleman and the FBI . . . If Gartin is elected, the next occupation forces may be the N.A.A.C.P. and specially trained goon squads from the Justice Department...
...union, President James Riddle Hoffa of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters cared not a nit about the 1958 order handed down by Washington's Federal District Judge F. Dickinson Letts. That order, arising from a suit against Hoffa by 13 rank-and-file Teamsters, placed the racket-ridden, goon-directed union under the supervision of a three-member board of court-appointed monitors. But Hoffa blithely declared that the monitors' recommendations were purely advisory, ignored them completely ("O.K., you've advised me; I reject your advice"), looked forward confidently to the day when Judge Letts...
...winter, when the Oxford or Cambridge undergraduate has been sewn into the hair shirt of academic strictures for dismal months, he begins to itch. As Geoffrey Chaucer (Oxford or Cambridge, circa 1360, according to tradition) wrote about the approach of spring, "thanne longen folk to goon on pilgrimages." Last week at both universities, students were dreamily reviewing intricate plans for a modern form of the pilgrimage -the scholarly expedition. Some 20 such safaris-a record-breaking number-will set out from Oxbridge this June. They range from a one-undergraduate orchid hunt in Venezuela (the hunter got the idea while...