Word: hire
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Crimson will probably have to rent an elephant from a movie supply house in California, although one member of the HERC through it would be nice to march the entrant through Harvard Square to "build school spirit." Host School Orange State in Fullerton, Calif., has disclosed that they will hire both an elephant and a mahout...
Time was when a politician, in forecasting victory, had to put his own opinion on the line-"We'll win by 2½ to 1." But no longer: now all he has to do is hire a pollster, leak the results to the press (if they are favorable, which they had better be), and claim that political science itself is on his side...
...they have to stop. They also have to stop guarding the hero's house when the vil lain's lawyer threatens to tell the taxpayers how their money is being spent. Next day the hero's watchdog is poisoned. The chief of police advises him to hire a private detective: "It's a terrible thing to say, but there's nothing more we can do." While the detective tails the villain, the villain tails the hero and his family - and skillfully accelerates the terror. He licks his lips over the hero's wife...
Most of his politician clients do not hire Harris because they are trying to decide whether to run for office; they hire him because they have already decided and they want to figure...
However sensible the necessity of protecting the privacy even of the man in the dock, the British system has its drawbacks. For one, witnesses already under hire by some newspaper face an irresistible impulse to embroider the truth for the sake of tomorrow's headlines. And Britain's checkbook journalism has inspired in the heart of many a felon the conviction that crime does pay. Said Stuart Campbell, editor of the People (circ. 5,450,727): "It's getting to the point that when you ask anyone the color of his hat, he says, 'Six quid...