Word: leveller
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...would be likely to insist on high performance by subordinates, just as he has done to excellent effect with his campaign organization. Humphrey has pointed out a number of times that the Bible is unconcerned with efficiency but deeply involved with compassion. On the day-to-day operating level, Humphrey could be expected to concern himself with more trivia than Nixon, to spread himself thinner, to put up with more intramural disorder...
Similar matters of pride were at stake in the police and firemen's dispute. The police turned down an exceedingly generous contract-which, despite their cries for Daley, would give them a base pay level of $10,750 a year, considerably more than the Chicago cops, and a 14.6% boost over two years-not because it was too little, but because the firemen would be getting as much. The policemen protested that they should receive more because of the greater hazards of the job. Renewing an old status rivalry, the firemen declared that they would accept not a penny...
...have to have not only protest but alternatives, at every level of politics," Bond said. "It's going to take everyone that can be enlisted, everyone that's sick of the politics of today--the politics that has kept us looking over our shoulders instead of at the road ahead." He spoke of organizing people at the local level, on campuses and in communities, of mobilizing old forms of political power and looking for new ones...
...morning tour bus drove through a gate in the miles of barbed wire fence surrounding Dow's plant, 4500 acres of land. "The largest industrial complex in the country within one fence." 700 smoking buildings. Miles of ground-level piping. Miles of overhead piping. Hundreds of vats, some of them 40 feet in diameter with a soupy green liquid bubbling inside...
...course, is likely to level violent criticism against the notion of theatre without cost. Some may wonder, though, why and whether Harvard undergraduates should be considered prime candidates for such charity. And By George in a single evening stated the case rather eloquently, drawing more students than has many a Loeb show in the typical eight-performance run. A price of sorts had to be paid for this achievement, but somehow or other last night's spectators got along despite the notable absence of a large share of the Loeb's usual clientele--the proverbial ladies from Malden...