Word: stay
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Those who stay behind are the truly dispossessed, the old, the ill and, most deleteriously, the alienated young who, in the phrase of Newark Detective Charles Meek, himself a Negro, "dance their hips off, turn on to booze, narcotics, airplane glue, girls." To them, a steady job, in the slang of the ghetto, is "slave," and no amount of youth-corps training at "skills centers" can help them. Many of the jobs open to these youths cannot match either the income or the romance of the traditional ghetto occupation: petty crime...
...from hecklers when he went speechifying. Now, with campaign cash dwindling and April's Gallup poll showing his nationwide popularity down four points to a meager 10%, those days are numbered. Alabama's ambitious new Governor Albert Brewer, 39, is expected to fire state jobholders who stay away from work to stump for Wallace...
...woman. Single men were warned not to ride the elevator with her alone, especially if they were going all the way to the eighth floor. The Antlers had been chosen for one reason--it was cheap. The staff responded to the challenge. Accordingly, Senator McCarthy announced his willingness to stay in the staff hotel when the campaign reached California. If they were gutsy enough to take...
...even in an uncongenial state, still couldn't be beaten. Some staff members were leaving that night for Nebraska. Others would be going on to California the next day. The staff room was jammed with volunteers asking for full-time staff applications. Many had decided to screw school and stay with the campaign. Others would get out to the Coast after exams. And everyone promised to meet in Chicago. The crusade was still snowballing; the entourage of idealistic college dropouts was growing. Someone made a sign: Robert Lowell for Secretary of State. We were dreaming once again...
After the freshman indicated their four choices, he explained, the House Assignment Committee--a standing committee of the Faculty--set to work. "Our first aim is to please the students," Watson said, "but we have to stay within certain limits." Each House, for example, has a rank list quota to determine the minimum number of students from each academic "group" the House must admit...