Word: wording
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...into place. One FBI agent allowed that "hundreds" of individuals were being checked. One name that surfaced-apparently because of an FBI slip-was that of Eric Starve Gait, 36, of Birmingham. The FBI put out an advisory to police, requesting that Gait be located though not arrested. When word leaked out in Dade County, the FBI rescinded the request but continued to ask questions at Gait's last known address, a Birmingham rooming house...
...newsmen covering campaigns. Most reporters--particularly those from the wire services and the second-rate dailies--remain encased in the womb of the press bus or plane and file a stream of speech stories, color stories, and isolated voter reaction stories fed to them in press releases or by word of mouth by the candidate's press staff. In between deadlines, they gossip about politician, view the scenery, or ask around for the name of a good restaurant at the night's stop...
...told, the TV coverage, thanks to past experience, was better organized than in previous times. Having learned to gauge the impact of TV's immediacy, NBC reporters on the streets avoided using the provocative word riot, and in at least two instances were told by their headquarters to breathe deeply and compose themselves before going on the air with their stories...
Automatic Strippers. Besides fresh meat, Oscar Mayer & Co. offers under its brand name 135 varieties of sausages and some 70 other processed-meat products, notably bland luncheon cuts and wieners (Mayer & Co. will accept the word frankfurter-but hot dog is taboo). Since 1954, in an industry traditionally plagued by meager returns, it has also squeezed out more profit than any other leading meat packer: 2.38% of sales in 1967, v. an industry-wide average...
...designed the devices that eventually could have produced an Abomb. They even conducted crude H-bomb experiments. But their scientific skills were not equal to the problems of dictatorial politics. When they tried to persuade their government of the importance of nuclear energy, German physicists pointedly avoided using the word bomb; they were fearful that Hitler might order the immediate production of a nuclear weapon and hold them responsible if they failed to perfect one. Unconvinced of its military value, Nazi leaders gave their atomic energy program a relatively low priority; they never came close to matching the tremendous expense...