Word: whim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seems incredible that a University which can attract such speakers to its campus cannot provide adequate space for its students to hear them. Sanders Theatre seats 1200 when jammed to capacity. Rindge Tech Auditorium, which seats 1500, is available at the whim of the Cambridge School Committee, which denied it to Barnett and presumably will do the same to Wallace...
Moreover, of some 80,000 state employees, about 60,000 held no civil service job tenure, were subject to the will and whim of Pennsylvania's notoriously patronage-minded politicians. Teachers' salaries were abysmally low, and highway construction was behind schedule...
...later years, when he reached the Supreme Court and came within one man's whim of the presidency, we could agree, "What a driver...
...gunfire lasted for four hours, and three Syrian MIG fighter planes-serving either the government, the rebels, or their own whim-knocked out the radio transmitter. When the radio limped back on the air, it was still in government hands. The strongman of Syria's ruling Baath (Renaissance) Party, General Mohammed Hafez, who is both Defense Minister and army chief of staff, broadcast that the effort "to disturb the peace" had been crushed. Next day he announced the break in the rules of Syrian-style coups: eight rebel military men and twelve civilians had been executed. Hafez blamed...
...Stop, stop, stop," chanted one touristy audience in the midst of a night in Ulm. But Ulm's town fathers defiantly contribute 1,400,000 marks ($350,000) a year to keep the theater happily independent of public whim...