Word: recruiting
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From Good to Great. At first, Villanova Coach Jim ("Jumbo") Elliott was unimpressed with his new recruit. "He was lazy," says Elliott. "But sprinters are like that. They believe that God gave them their speed and all they have to do is lace up their shoes, comb their hair and run." Not until the 1960 Rome Olympics did Budd realize that work would make him a real champion. Unheralded and unnoticed, he placed fifth in the 100-meter dash-despite the fact that he was spiked in the foot by fellow U.S. Sprinter Dave Sime. "When Frank went to Rome...
Like an Old Movie. Scientists of the Naval Research Laboratory found the experiment no bore, gathered enough information to keep them busy evaluating for several months. Closed-circuit TV zeroed in on the recruits has already given, them many of the answers they want. At first the shelter seemed a weary sailor's paradise, and the men caught up on all the sack time lost at boot camp, sleeping in shifts. When fatigue gave way to restlessness, they turned to poker (played for matchsticks, since the Navy officially bans gambling). But this palled after a week, conversation was exhausted...
...John Birch Society generally dismisses its critics as Communists, Com-symps or, at best, Communist dupes. Last week a surprising new recruit turned up in the symp-dupe ranks: the ultra-conservative National Review...
...workers for sound government, and each such worker must be properly joined with his next higher superior until the entire party can operate as a unit. We need intelligent, personable, dedicated and energetic leaders. From one election to the next, each of us must help to inform and to recruit and on every election day make certain that all Republicans and all the people that we have reached and educated will be on hand to cast their votes...
...According to the Charles account (and this is one part that Western experts find improbable), Mao reacted emotionally to the suggestion that Peng's accusations might trigger a peasant revolution, with "tears in his eyes" said that if that happened he would go back to the villages to recruit another army...