Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...other jobs-can be established in a hooch for about $150 a month, not counting food. Though this is more than a private's monthly pay, an enterprising G.I. can make up the difference by playing the black market. In some small towns, girls have organized to establish minimum rates. Groups like the Rose Association and the Reconstruction Association have instituted "pillow fees" ranging from $100 to $200 a month. But cash is not as important as PX privileges. Simply by reporting a readiness to get married, a G.I. can provide his moose with cigarettes, radios and cameras...
...College has no intention of changing its policy of keeping off-campus permissions to a minimum, Watson noted. When overcrowding is relieved by the Tenth House he said, the privilege of "living out" will again be reserved for special cases...
...welfare of American business that it used the 14th Amendment mainly to protect corporations as "persons," striking down all sorts of state laws regulating business on the grounds that they violated "liberty of contract." New York was forbidden to set a ten-hour day for bakers; out went minimum-wage laws for women...
...every stop, efficient campaign staffs reduce the journalist's duty to a minimum. Jack Valenti, President Johnson's aide, relieves newsmen of one chore by counting the times a Johnson speech is interrupted by applause. There are telephones in the press pool cars-vehicles reserved for a few correspondents chosen to represent the many, which thrust as near the candidate's limousine as safety permits. Speech texts are usually available in advance...
Lakoff said that, in effect, the minimum sophomore grade, which includes a tutor's report, is a B or better. A special Department vote, however, can permit the Senior Tutor to apply more flexible standards...