Word: irking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...much pain as the former. He feels constrained by the conformity required in a highly organized society, but he also feels lost and without moorings. And both feelings may be traced to the same cause: the disappearance of the natural human community and its replacement by formula controls that irk and give no sense of security...
...lighter stories about the business community, the Wall Street Journal gently chided those executives who take off for long weekends early Friday afternoon and leave instructions with secretaries to cover up for them. "The empty executive suites irk a lot of people," reported the paper. "An increasing number of businessmen are complaining that so many executives disappear on Friday afternoons that it is impossible to conduct any business...
...accidents, but sometimes because they happen to live in "red line" (claim-prone) areas or belong to supposedly risky groups-a category that includes the young, the old, Negroes, actors, barbers, bartenders, sailors, soldiers and men with frivolous nicknames like "Shorty." Divorcees are often blackballed because they might irk women jurors; doctors and clergymen are frowned upon as "preoccupied" drivers. A Manhattan lawyer was banned after someone hit his car in his apartment-house parking lot while he was upstairs asleep; a California housewife with a perfect driving record lost her policy because her husband was a Navy medic-driving...
Some of the looters were taking a methodical revenge upon the area's white merchants, whose comparatively high prices, often escalated to offset losses by theft and the cost of extra-high insurance premiums, irk the residents of slum neighborhoods. Most of the stores pillaged and destroyed were groceries, supermarkets and furniture stores; of Detroit's 630 liquor stores, 250 were looted. Many drunks careened down Twelfth Street consuming their swag. Negro merchants scrawled "Soul Brother"-and in one case, "Sold Brother" -on their windows to warn the mobs off. But many of their stores were ravaged nonetheless...
What seemed to irk the dealers most was a practice not confined to Dodge. Automakers rebate from $50 to $100 of the price of a new car to dealers who meet or top monthly sales quotas set by the factory. Because the quotas vary from dealer to dealer even in the same area, they complained, the rebates give low-quota dealers a price advantage over their competitors. On top of that, dealers who consistently fail to meet their sales quotas lose their franchises. Yet neither Dodge nor other dealers can sell a franchise without factory approval of the buyer...