Word: slackers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Viet Nam. One afternoon I ran into a young Army captain, and he asked, 'Sir, are you going home to help Scranton?', and when I said I was not, all he said was 'Oh,' but the tone of his voice made me feel like a slacker. A few days later I decided...
...mollycoddler, Manager Mauch always has a train ticket ready for a slacker. Starting pitchers know that it is no use arguing when he wants a replacement from the bullpen. He simply marches to the mound and holds out his hand for the ball. His hair-trigger temper is legendary; he has been suspended three times for jawing with umpires, and wise players stay out of his way on a losing afternoon. One day last year, infuriated by a narrow loss to Houston, he stalked into the clubhouse, found the Phillies feasting gaily on a buffet of barbecued spareribs-and flipped...
Flushed by their cordial reception at the local level, some giveaways have plunged all the way into fulltime newspapering. In Omaha four shopping guides published by David Blacker converted to paid newspaper weeklies beginning in 1958. To Slacker's satisfaction, all but 20,000 of his 60,000 readers submitted to a levy of a nickel; to lis greater satisfaction, all but a handful of those stayed aboard last month when he raised the price to a dime. Although Blacker's papers now carry syndicated columnists, his news approach has remained steadfastly local...
...concept in recent speeches and in messages to Congress, the budget is in the red because a slack economy does not produce adequate federal revenue. The Administration cannot eliminate the deficit by reducing expenditures-that would only shrink "aggregate demand" for goods and services, thereby making the economy even slacker. So what is the answer? It is to cut taxes while keeping federal expenditures high. The stimulating effects of tax reduction would increase incomes and profits, eventually making it possible for the Government, even at lower tax rates, to collect enough revenue to balance the budget. "In the end," said...
...work of all was a World War I recruiting poster-perhaps the only one in history that actually drove large numbers of young men into wartime recruiting offices. Using his own lean, darkly handsome face as a model, he depicted a stern, black-browed Uncle Sam pointing an inescapable, slacker-accusing finger, demanding: I WANT YOU. The Government printed 4.000.-000 copies, shipped them to every city, town and hamlet in the nation...