Word: rug
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Council would do well to set up a temporary committee to look into the problems of civil rights in Cambridge and to study Vorenberg's proposal for a permanent civil rights committee. (Temporary study committees are notoriously used to sweep problems under the rug; they can be effective, however, as the Council so recently demonstrated in investigating the projected NASA research center in Kendall Square...
...great conservative majority," Stanley continued, "is sitting in its drawing-room, plinking its harpsichord, and thinking it's 1898. But it may be necessary to bury the left-wing extremist under the drawing-room rug, because the kitchen is going to be a little messy...
...more a musical séance than a concert. "The air was hazy with the acrid aroma of burning incense. The three barefoot musicians sat cross-legged on an Oriental rug onstage. The audience at the University of Pennsylvania's Irvine Auditorium last week was equally exotic-a curious mingling of Indians in turbans or saris, bearded jazz musicians, leather-jacketed beatniks and college students. Racing his spidery fingers across the steel strings of his sitar, Ravi Shankar invoked a whining chorus of quavering, sensuous melodies in intricate interplay with the shifting, galloping cross-rhythms of the tablet (drums...
...unlikely Massachusetts will get a better class of men for its legislators until it pays a better wage. The passage of the referendum simply denying a pay raise for the second time sweeps the question of what to do about the woefully underpaid ($5200 per year) legislature under the rug. Simultaneously, however, voters approved a pay hike for Boston policemen, boosting their starting salary to $6900. Neither salary is adequate, but the legislators ought not to be put under a greater compulsion to steal for a living than the police...
...forward, toward freedom and progress." To accomplish this, he said, price supports must go, but only after "something better has been developed that can gradually be substituted for it." Just what that something better might be, Goldwater did not specify, but he did promise: "I will never jerk the rug from under the American farmer...