Word: hire
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Only last week Dorothy Killgallen reported (in her syndicated eHarst column), "The Bridey Murphy craze is captivating the town's chorus girls. The belles are meeting by the dozens at one another's apartments after showtime, chipping in to hire a professional hypnotist and sitting around fascinated as they listen to their chums' "regressions" and trying to uncover some intriguing previous existence...
Urban Renewal has gotten no farther. The city had promised the Federal Government to hire an Urban Renewal Coordinator, appoint an Urban Renewal Authority, and set up an agency to enforce the Housing code, all by October 1955. It has thus far done nothing except put a token item in the budget for a Coodinator, and delay action. The city manager, like Diogenes, is looking for a man. The trouble is that he wants a good man to take a bad job, and like Diogenes, the problem is insoluble...
Sooner or later, the city must, come out of the political smoke and make a choice, for or against Urban Renewal. If it wants Renewal, it will have to appropriate enough money to hire planners, coordinators, and inspectors. Such a move will pay for itself, since a planned city is a more taxable city, and the planning office total about two tenths of one percent of the total tax income. If the city does not want Renewal, it should stop wasting its time, energy, and money in half way measures...
Several solutions have been proposed. The obvious one, of course, is to hire a janitor to lock Paine's doors at 10 p.m., shortening rodent festivities by five hours. The Music Department, however, has held this arrangement financially undesirable...
...Peshawar, where they were promptly whipped again. The losers were galled, less by the score than by a series of "leg before wicket"* decisions awarded to Pakistan's star bowler by Umpire Idris Beg. Back in their rooms at Deans Hotel, the cricketers got themselves sufficiently stimulated to hire tongas (horse-drawn rickshaws) and hunt down Umpire Beg. When they found him. they politely invited him back to Deans for "a little private party." Beg refused, so the players took him anyway-according to Beg-dislocating one of his arms in the process. At Deans, the Pakistani recounted later...