Word: hire
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Approved, in the House Appropriations Committee, an additional $4,000,000 in the next Secret Service budget, for protecting the President. The service said that it needs the funds to hire 259 additional agents, disclosed that it now has in its files 130,000 names of "persons who may be a danger to the President...
...from different regions are forced to work together. All Chinese consider themselves vastly superior to minority groups within their borders, such as the newly enslaved Tibetans and the Moslem Uighurs in the west. Formosans, themselves ethnic Chinese, dislike the Nationalist mainland refugees who have made them prosperous, and some hire thugs to prevent mésalliances between mainlanders and Formosan girls...
...pool halls as ever - it's just that they like to be called les académies de billard now. No more spittoons, no more raucous voices. Tables are covered with pink felt, and ladies, bless their well-chalked tips, are taking up the game. Pool halls even hire "knockers" to protect patrons from the hustlers. "Nobody gambles any more," sighs Lassiter. The only thing left is to play other hustlers and get TV to pay the salaries. So there they are, traveling from tournament to tournament, competing for $30,000 in Las Vegas, just like Jack Nicklaus...
Beating the Big Times. To find a scriptwriter for their "shout," the Rosenblatts went all the way to Maryland's Prince Georges County News to hire away Editor John Bill Lunsford. And ever since Lunsford's arrival, Review readers have been peppered with the kind of stories that most newspaper subscribers expect from aggressive dailies, not slow-paced weeklies...
...ballistic missiles or Polaris submarines. Scholars would still be struggling to decipher the Dead Sea Scrolls, a job of rapid indexing and analysis made possible by the computer. To process without computers the flood of checks that will be circulating in the U.S. by 1970, banks would have to hire all the American women between 21 and 45. If all the computers went on the blink, the country would be practically paralyzed: plants would shut down, finances would be thrown into chaos, most telephones would go dead, and the skies would be left virtually defenseless against enemy attack...