Word: mischiefism
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...sort of mountain Populist. Last week in the Ozark woods, Uncle Sam, crippled from arthritis but still scratching a living from his hillside farm, mused on his son's fame. "Little Orval," said J. Sam Faubus, "he was different to most boys. Kids like to get into mischief, but all he ever did was read books. He never done anything if he couldn't do it perfectly. You'd never find a weed in his row of corn...
Racist John Kasper, of New Jersey, though attracting only small crowds, was in town to stir up as much mischief as he could. Parents of six of the 13 Negro children got threatening phone calls. One caller told a mother that her six-year-old daughter would be strung up by her toes. Someone told another mother that acid would be hurled at her son. Said a woman who identified herself as a "Ku Kluxer": "You'd better not send your child to a white school, because we'll beat her to death and bomb your house...
Costs & Carloads. Like many another industry, the roads have paid out a lot more in 1957 to take in a little less. While operating revenues declined only one-tenth of 1% in the first six months, operating expenses rose by $73 million, or 1.8%. Inflation's mischief hit the railroads where it hurts most-in wages, which account for 63% of all operating costs. Though the railroads actually trimmed more than 56,000 employees from their payrolls during the past year, they paid 12.5% more in wages, hiked payrolls by nearly $28 million. The railroads were also hard...
...fancy palaces and went roaring through town in a royal limousine with a screaming siren (reports have it that El Amin Bey had a foot pedal in the back of his car with which he himself could sound the siren). Most important, El Amin kept himself out of political mischief by spending his days tinkering with old clocks and watches and later, when his hobbies turned more modern, with an expensive X-ray machine and a do-it-yourself kit for making blood tests on his relatives...