Word: wade
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Negro leaders prefer to call them "selective patronage movements"-against business firms that discriminate against Negroes in their personnel practices. There are rent strikes against slumlords who refuse to repair Negro tenements. There is the "sit-in" technique and its myriad variations: the "swim-in" to integrate pools, the "wade-in" at beaches, the "pray-in" at churches, the "wait...
...hour and TV commentators rehash what the camera has already shown, we see no point in repeating the banal rituals of the communiqués. Sometimes, as in this week's cover story, the most significant part of the news may have escaped readers too busy to wade through columns of testimony in those newspapers which gave the subject much attention...
...fishermen themselves do the talk ing, passing out friendly tips to the chairborne clods at home (wade like a silent Indian, watch your shadow, keep your hooks sharp). One man, using what looks like two-ton test line, demonstrates his fantastic casting skill by flicking successfully into a 50-m.p.h. gale...
Also elected were Michael H.P. Belknap, of Leverett House and Winnetka, Ill., Wade S. Hooker, Jr., of Lowell House and Holbrook, Mass., James G. Slaughter, of Quincy House and Haskell, Tex., and Loren Z. Clayman, of Winthrop House and Chelsea, Mass...
...Rochester tinkerer who founded the world's biggest photographic supplier, pioneered a paternalistic system of employee bonuses and pensions, and built dozens of schools, hospitals and dental clinics. Another is research. Kodak assiduously collects Ph.D.s (more than 500 are on its staff), and lets them wade fearlessly into the chartless seas of pure research. The third is profits: the company's have tripled in the past decade, and so have its dividends...