Word: shakedown
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...told them to get lost," said Cohen. The Weathermen say that they asked for help in paying the massive legal fees that have piled up in Chicago, where more than 200 of their members are coming to trial for rioting last month. But they deny that it was a shakedown, claiming that Moratorium leaders issued the story to discredit them. When the violence did come in Washington, the Weathermen were in the thick of it (see THE NATION...
...columnist or commentator who can settle great affairs with absolute finality three days or even six days a week." Yet Pegler recurrently passed devastating judgments on men-or women -with a damning epithet. Sometimes his stiletto was properly aimed. He won a Pulitzer Prize in 1941 for exposing the shakedown racket of George Scalise, a New York union leader, who was subsequently imprisoned...
Harvard departments sometimes give new courses a shakedown cruise, as it were, during the Summer School, before including the courses in their winter offerings...
...fallen into fifth place after a rival station wooed away its top announcer, George Putnam, an archconservative who never fails to put America first. The salary that won George was $300,000 (Walter Cronkite earns something over $200,000). Even if Reddin does not improve over his shaky shakedown, he has an escalator contract guaranteeing him $150,000 a year within five years...
...program is clearly still on its shakedown cruise. Benti himself is engaging and incisive, but he has yet to emerge with distinctive authority and character. Hughes Rudd, who has a growing reputation as a writer of short stories and published a 1966 collection, My Escape from the CIA and Other Improbable Events, handles the offbeat news. Ponchitta, 26, is obviously learning by doing and has awkward moments, as if suddenly numbed by awareness that the staring camera...