Word: gumption
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...team's ponies and equipment belie polo's glamorous image. Although members try to exercise the animals between practices, a minimum of time is spent on grooming. The ponies are a motley group, but looks aren't everything. One small mare recently proved per gumption by outrunning a large throughbred in a quarter-mile sprint...
...enter Ray with blood in his eye, just begging for his comeuppance, which takes place when Fonda finally gets the gumption to gun him down. Fortunately for the film, even the small roles are in the hands of some of the oldest pros in the business-among them Edgar Buchanan as a Government man and Lon Chancy as a bartender. Handling the clichés with the care of a cowpoke tending a tired palomino, they make Hard Times seem better than it is because they have been there before- many times. So has the audience...
...Gumption Quotient." First of all, as the results in Prince Edward County and St. Louis showed, intelligence test scores do vary. But more to the point is the fact that IQ tests measure not intelligence but what the experts call the "learned responses" of an individual to a series of questions or problems. Thus, IQ serves chiefly to give teachers some idea of a youngster's ability to do academic work. Even here, many teachers make the mistake of using IQ to predict a child's future achievements...
...standard IQ tests, agrees Charles O. Ruddy, associate superintendent of schools in Boston, give no clue to a student's "gumption quotient." Moreover, it is not uncommon to find an error of ten points or more in many IQ scores. For example, a child with 120 may not necessarily be brighter than one with 110 or dumber than one with...
...Fellows," said Ronny Haan, "I am glad to see you here tonight. I know it took gumption to come. We are battling a ruthless foe." He went on to spell out a long list of newsboy grievances, then asked for a vote. How many carriers were willing to picket the Eagle-Times? One hundred hands shot up; 100 young voices cheered. And how many would support a one-day strike against the paper? Again, the same noisily unanimous response. Ben Stahl, who had come over from A.F.L.-C.I.O. regional headquarters in Philadelphia, decided that it was time to take...