Word: taker
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...around years of marriage, Auto Heir Horace E. Dodge Jr. (age, 62; weight, 180) filed suit for divorce from Gregg Sherwood Dodge (age. 38; weight. 130), charging that she kicked and slapped him to the point that he feared "for his safety and existence." Her answer was a double-taker: "He's afraid of me physically? I can hardly lift him off the floor...
...present, apart from ministers and teachers at the colored school, exactly six Negroes are self-sufficient: two own barber shops, one a beauty parlor, two have restaurants, and there is one under-taker. Young people, if they want to stay near their families, must confine ambitions to the possible acquisition of a skilled job either bottling pickles and herrings (at Vita) or plucking bones from dead chickens (at Campbell...
...warns against the Terrible of petty tasks and , ogre of wasted effort and of habit, the demon of , the Senses Taker ("I help find what they're not looking what they're not listening for, what they're not chasing.... your sense of purpose, take of duty, destroy your sense ...."), the Triple Demons promise (easy to escape because get anywhere at all), the Know-it-all and the Gross...
Lucky Ticket Taker. Even in labor-short France, the emigres have difficulty finding jobs. An automobile mechanic insists he had employment until it was discovered that he was born in Algeria; then the company suddenly discovered that the job was already filled. A skilled accountant, who left Algiers after four of his family died in terror attacks, has been unemployed for ten months except for odd jobs at 45? an hour. Raphael Coudray, 37, a French army veteran who served as a volunteer in Korea, was wounded by a grenade in a terrorist attack in Algiers. In France...
...other place except Boston, namely the article quoting the Harvard Government professor as stating that ocrruption is not only inevitable but enviable in government, and that bribery is a modern necessity. Bribery, to me, has always represented greed and avarioe and cowardice, greed on the part of the taker, and cowardice on the part of the giver, since it effectively buys his desired ends without ever exposing them to the public eye, much less to the "reasonable discussion" mentioned by Edward C. Banfield, professor of Government as occasionally engaged in by political officials...