Word: iron
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Avery is friends with all the bikeys," said Janet, an Emerson College sophomore / dealer. "They protect him." Bikeys are toughs with bicycle chains around their necks and iron crosses, who carry guns and threaten to shoot any dealer who cheats them, but they like Avery. "They used to hang around Avery on the Common, watching out for him," Janet added. "Of course, if he ever burned one of them, he'd be in trouble...
Even before he retired as Air Force Chief of Staff nearly four years ago, the bluff, iron-willed flier had become involved in policy scraps that shaded into the political Most notable was his running public quarrel with then Defense Secretary Robert McNamara over whether, as thought, manned bombers should be equally important as missiles in the U.S. deterrent force. In retirement, relieved of the usual military restraints on an officer's political views, he declared that if all else failed, the US had the capability to "bomb the North Vietnamese back to the stone age" and to "destroy...
...anti-communist assumptions, then we are not talking about the same animal. For me, reason and rationality are useful intellectual tools for uncovering the truth and for thinking effectively. Reason has never been for me an end-all, be-all sort of thing: when rationality and pragmatism gain too iron a hold over my life, then it's usually time to get a little "irrational" and break their grip. In short, I don't worship "reason" any more than I go out and prostrate myself before the MBTA subway because it transports me as efficiently through the Massachusetts underworld...
...South Carolina's Congaree Iron and Steel Co. ($1,000,000), which needs working capital and has agreed to transfer a substantial part of its stock and profits to a trust for its predominantly Negro work force...
...stress the excellent record of the Defense Department on open housing. He can enlarge his concept of security to include economic as well as military values. He knows that "solid friends and implacable enemies are no longer so easy to label"-that tags like "free world," "Communism," and "Iron Curtain" are becoming "increasingly inadequate." He steadily argues that there can be no true security for the world as long as such problems as poverty, racism and illiteracy remain unsolved or just half solved...