Word: paycheck
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Fanning Old Fires. In 1939 Dr. Townsend sat in dejected silence in the gallery as the House of Representatives crushed his plan, 302 to 97. By then, social security was all the thing. (Townsend contemptuously refused to accept his own social security paycheck of $99.15 until he was 86.) After his wife's death in 1951, Dr. Townsend spent his days restlessly traveling, speaking to the faithful, trying to rekindle the old fires. In the midst of a tour last month, he caught pneumonia, died of complications in Long Beach last week, a wispy old-fire breather...
Independence. The college Negro is generally away from home, safe from a situation in which retribution for his sins would be visited on his family. He has economic freedom. "Adults," say a Montgomery Negro leader, "have a debt on their house. They need their paycheck. It isn't easy for them to agitate for freedom. But it is for these college boys and girls...
...knocked around the edges of the big time, often seems to be singing to herself. She is lost in The Clouds, a Honolulu nightclub on Kapahulu Avenue no better and no worse than a dozen other joints competing for the tourist's dollar or the serviceman's paycheck...