Word: hire
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Television this year will put on more plays, hire more actors and spend more money on drama than all the producers and backers of Broadway...
Once rated as a spinner of superior thrillers (The Ministry of Fear, This Gun for Hire), he is now seriously discussed as possibly "the finest writer of his generation." No other writer in England enjoys Greene's combination of popular and critical success. The Midas-movies have touched his work to gold (twelve pictures, at least three of them first-rate successes: The Fallen Idol, The Third Man, Confidential Agent). In 1948, The Heart of the Matter was a Book-of-the-Month Club choice in the U.S., and on the Continent Greene is England's bestselling author...
Greene went on writing novels (It's a Battlefield, England Made Me, This Gun for Hire), and getting more popular. But the critics didn't take him seriously. He was too readable; whether he called them "entertainments" or not, his stories were read for sheer pleasure by people who ignored his terrifying glimpses of sin and despair. Even the chilling study of pure evil in Brighton Rock (1938) was written off by one English reviewer as "so much guff." Nevertheless, Brighton Rock was a turning point for Greene. He had discovered that "a Catholic is more capable...
...House has passed a bill of unprecedented naivete and illogic. By holding every college president in the state responsible for the political life of his faculty. House bill 426 ignores the administrational structure of a college. In the first place, governing boards and trustees generally have the power to hire and fires professors. A college president, furthermore, does not have the authority of a court, nor should he have the responsibility of judging the character of members of his teaching staff...
...among young boys a distorted idea of what it really means to play big football . . . and who think that other people's judgments of men are as superficial as their own when they say that football players will have no trouble finding jobs, because everyone is glad to hire a football player...