Word: scrap
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Young's happiest scrap was with some Ohio American Legion posts that adopted a resolution censuring him for agreeing to speak before the leftist Emergency Civil Liberties Committee. Calling the Legionnaires "puffed-up patriots" and "publicity-seeking professional veterans," Young answered one "Americanism chairman" directly: "I repudiate your resolution, Buster, and your pompous, self-righteous, holier-than-thou title of 'Americanism chairman.' " When Ohio Republican Congressman Gordon Sherer joined forces with the Legion, Young devastated him in one grandly irrelevant blast: "While I was on the Anzio beachhead* he was Safety Director of Cincinnati, Ohio...
...death twelve years ago, Playwright Shaw, an Irishman with a masterful but impatient command of English, left ?8,300 ($23,240) in trust to help eliminate phonetic vagaries from the English alphabet. Characteristically, he suggested that the best way to do it would be to scrap the whole thing and start afresh, and the prizewinner, a devoted English phonetist named Kingsley Read, did just that. The results of his work have just been released by Penguin Books: a trial edition of Androcles and the Lion, Shaw's famous dramatic spoof of early Christians and Romans, with the English alphabet...
...similar claims could be made around the country on many issues. But not in Birmingham. There the voters had long debated ways of replacing the three-man commission (including one man designated as mayor), which both made the laws and administered them. The proposal on the ballot was to scrap the commission in favor of a nine-member council and a separate mayor. When both the Birmingham News and Post-Herald backed the reform, Mayor Arthur J. Hanes not only quit talking to newsmen but threatened to turn them out of the city hall pressroom. Said he: "Why should...
...another bold and broad step toward unifying continental Europe's major economies, the Common Market Commission proposed last week that its six member nations scrap their jumble of business "turnover" taxes and adopt a single, coherent tax code...
...past five years, however, Nobel Prizewinner (1950) Russell has become ever more deeply convinced that Britain should scrap its nuclear armaments and let the Communists take over the country, if necessary, rather than risk annihilation of the human race. As founder of Britain's "better Red than dead" Campaign for 'Nuclear Disarmament and later of an even more militant group called the Committee of 100. Russell denounces the U.S. as a nation of trigger-happy imperialists, but had only soft words for Russia's recent rocket rattling. Despite, or because of, the fact that...