Word: rented
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This coalition, the two-term Negro Congressman from Detroit predicted, would be able to force the federal government--including the Congress -- to be more responsive to programs like rent supplements, model cities appropriations, and the Philip Randolph Institute's Freedom Budget...
...Brooks tackled the problem of relations with Ecuadorians by displaying an enthusiasm and a patience that can only astound--or dismay--other Vounteers. On their first day in town they politely demurred at the suggestion that they rent a spacious balcony apartment in town and instead set up house in a beach front dwelling of bricksand bamboo, located two miles away. The choice amazed local fishermen. "But only poor people live here," said one, unable to comprehend why gringos chose to reside in his barrio...
...semi-attached to the Associated Harvard Alumni, this official alumni organization did help bail the Bulletin out of the libel suit. The Bulletin is no longer a virgin in its relations with the University either. It occupies Wads-worth House (the small yellow, frame building next to Lehman allH) rent-free...
...invested $1,000 to make it a shop that any junkie could call home. In the first three months, HQ passed the acidhead test, grossed $11,000; Hopkins and Donohue expect to gross $50,000 in 1967. It is hard to see how they could lose money. Their rent is $225 a month, and more than half of their goods are on consignment. Among the Headquarters merchandise: prism spectacles that even without drugs make the world seem askew, roach clips (ornamental holders for "roaches," the butts of marijuana cigarettes) and Psychedelic Love Oil, a scented baby oil made...
Moral of Kazan's story: "No one can live completely as he'd wish. We all pay something in time and in disgust for rent and for groceries. It's an arrangement you make with society, which is itself an arrangement, you understand?" Sure, but what else...