Word: hiked
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...parents are too confining. With his pet raccoon Gus, he runs off to the Laurentian Mountains, befriends a falcon, a librarian and a folk singer (Theodore Bikel). The singer teaches Sam a fundamental truth: no boy is an island, entire of itself-and prepares him for the long hike home...
...Ogilvie believes that the "bedrock needs of this state" demand radical change. Even the Republican legislative leaders were stunned by the size of his proposal: a budget increase of 45% and the biggest tax jump in Illinois history, including its first income tax. The money would be used to hike welfare spending by more than 20%, nearly double aid to elementary and secondary public education and, for the first time, provide state support for private and parochial schools...
...only nine of them were born under Gemini, which governs artists; and that another eight were born under Libra-which governs statesmen, managers, judges. I am a Leo: leader, politician, entertainer. I happen to be a retiring, bookish scientist. I have never led anything more potent than a nature hike; never been more political than my vote; and even my best friends admit I am a bore. Why doesn't an airline run a horoscope and cancel a flight if it turns out bad? And then, can you see the headlines next day: "Crash Canceled-Nobody Dead...
What about the tuition hike without a commensurate raise in scholarships? This, too, is economic double-talk which conceals specific political priorities. In a term paper on University financial decisions written for David Riesman last spring, David Labaree '69 concludes...
Some $300,000 of this year's increase came from the teaching fellows' pay hike that Ford announced in September. An even worse blow may come next year. If all the recommendations of the Dunlop Committee are accepted, faculty salaries will rise by another $370,000. And while this year's teaching fellow raise apparently came too late to hamper many plans for faculty expansion, the Dunlop Report may force several departments to slow down their ambitious expansion projects...