Word: whim
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...alive as ever is another kind of "gut"-the good course taught by a good professor who just happens to be soft on grades and work for reasons that range from fondness for overworked students to earnest boosterism ("We must stimulate interest in Shakespeare"). Such benevolence is subject to whim: sudden crackdowns make one year's gut next year's skull-cracker. Thus, each fall the avid "gut-seeker," as Harvard calls him, has to sniff out anew the telltale signs: heavy class attendance, especially by football players, and a proneness to refer to the course in slang...
...cannot censor the New York papers. The Congress is specifically forbidden to abridge their freedom. But Bert Powers, the boss of the New York printers, cannot only censor them but shut them down. What is 'free' about a press that can be muzzled on the whim of a single citizen...
...unanimous vote to support the British in Brussels. "Europe without Britain is unthinkable," declared Vice Chancellor Ludwig Erhard, leader of the West German Common Market delegation. From the Bundestag came strong warnings that legislators will refuse to ratify Adenauer's pact unless De Gaulle's selfish whim is thwarted...
Everyone can also be a worrier, for insecurity is the rule. The admen live in a world where the stealing of accounts and executives is a way of life, and where a client's hunch or whim may erase a score of jobs overnight. On average, the U.S. adman changes his job once every three years during his 30s and once every four years during his 40s-a far swifter turnover than in corporate life as a whole...
...time he was 35, the Herald was easily the best paper in the U.S., and no one was surprised when it scored a four-day beat by printing the complete news-denied by the War Department-of Custer's annihilation at Little Big Horn. It was part whim and part genius that prompted him to tell an obscure correspondent named Henry Morton Stanley to search Africa for the missing missionary, Dr. David Livingstone...