Word: waywardness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...SHOWOFF. An unwelcome son-in-law crashes like a wayward meteor into the mundane sphere of the earthy Fisher household and sets it ablaze with his inflammatory manner. George Kelly's 43-year-old comedy is revived...
...problem. They hired Carmelo Iglesias, a Puerto Rican co-worker of Saul Alinsky in New Jersey, to organize the Spanish-speaking people of the South End, most of them Puerto Rican, into a force that could resist exploitation by slumlords and businessmen, attract federal help, and catch the wayward eye of City Hall...
...become ourselves we are these wayward things...
...Wayward Footsteps. Gordon's most effective brickbats have been tossed at the mayor's office. In 1960, he proclaimed that Detroit's Mayor Louis Miriani was running the city $34 million in the red, despite a city charter specifically outlawing deficit spending. Then Gordon let it be known that Miriani had amassed a too-chic-to-be-mayorly wardrobe, also had been junketing to New York at the expense of lobbyists as well as soliciting city-government appointees to buy $10 tickets to his annual birthday parties. Federal authorities and listeners were equally appalled; Miriani...
...Mayor Jerome P. Cavanagh, who displaced incumbent Miriani in 1962 thanks partly to Gordon's exposes, unsuccessfully sought to get his onetime friend and ally fired. His reason: Gordon had turned on Cavanagh, accusing him of borrowing money from appointees, heavy drinking, womanizing and generally following in the wayward footsteps of Miriani. In July, Gordon broke the news that the mayor's wife Mary had filed suit for separate maintenance. A few weeks ago, Gordon opened wounds again by reporting that Cavanagh had closed his wife's charge account at Sears, Roebuck-much to her embarrassment when...