Word: hacks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sets out to instill self-confidence and self-sufficiency in its volunteers. It demands performances that the trainee may not have suspected he had in him. "We may drop a person with almost no money in some community," says Robert MacAlister, director of staff training, "and tell him to hack it for three or four days. We try to get people to realize their potential The operating principle is basically that a person can do anything he believes he can do." No gauge exists to measure the effect of this principle. But it is a fact-and a significant...
...Republican as a man "who lamentably lacks" the qualities to be President, Ball said that Nixon might try to escalate the Viet Nam war, has no real convictions, and showed his irresponsibility by the "cynicism" with which he picked his running mate. "The preposterous idea that a fourth-rate hack politician like Agnew might stand within a heartbeat of the presidency," said Ball, "is fantastic and shocking." He added: "I think it is important that people not forget the 'Tricky Dick' that we used to talk about, because there was significance in that phrase...
...HACK: The source is England's hackney horse, a creature that was let out for hire; it was usually mistreated, and became dull, broken down and exhausted. The word is particularly adaptable to politics, because political hacks are disciplined by a party whip...
Seven Minutes to Hack. Harris lined up the target in the luminous cross hairs of his screen, threw two switches that opened the bomb bay and armed the load of 108 bombs. Over the radio, the impersonal voice of a SAC ground controller announced "seven minutes to 'hack' [bomb release point]." The count droned on until at hack, when Harris punched a black button and 30 tons of high explosives cascaded toward the ground more than 30,000 feet below us. There was no shock, no noise, no sight of explosions. Only the impersonal voice of the controller...
...with his day-old bride, trading my dusty sandals for a home." And "Many Young Men From Now" has the added virtue of relevance, not only to the show but to the original play and to Cleopatra as Shaw conceived her. Drake would do well, however, to drop such hack-work as (from a song called "The Wrong Man"): "The world will call it wrong, but I must disagree: The wrong man's the right man for me." True, Her First Roman is in many ways a rather traditional musical, but it lifts free of cliche often enough...