Word: paye
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...tell you who the average man is. He's the guy who works hard all day and maybe comes home too tired to move, but he has to moonlight anyway to pay his bills. He wants to educate his kids. He wants his neighborhood to be peaceful and clean. He doesn't have a doorman. His kids go to public schools. He rides the subways and the buses. He never burned his draft card or a flag, and he never will. He tries to play the game by the rules, and for that he's getting pushed into a corner...
...placidly accept society's faults. He wants to prove the very problematical thesis that big cities are governable, given enough cash and imagination. It is a bad time for such men because many whites feel that there have been too many concessions to blacks already?concessions that whites must pay for. The American middle feels it is a victim of excessively rapid change. Richard Nixon saw that last year. City politicians are not missing the point either...
...club where Queens District Attorney Thomas Mackell is to give a cocktail party for Procaccino. But there has been a foul-up in the schedule; Procaccino has arrived two hours early and is disinclined to wait. His entourage is invited in for a drink. "Mackell going to pay for this?" Procaccino asks. Assured that refreshments are indeed on the missing Mackell, the candidate suddenly snaps his fingers. "As long as I've got the night off," he announces, "I'll take the wife and daughter out to dinner." He finds a pay telephone and is about to dial...
Yesterday, Roberts said he had agreed to serve in his new post, without pay, only until nov. 1, when he would take another look at the situation...
...halftime show, we got into a discussion of politics, bound to be elementary and short-lived among people like us. They knew about Louise Day Hicks, so we talked about that for 15 seconds. Then they wanted to know if our jocks were politicos. I really wanted to pay attention to the show rather than talk, but they couldn't understand such enthusiasm about a band. So I told him some of the jocks were interested in politics, which I think is true. As does everyone else, they asked if there had been any action here. "A little." And then...