Word: willingness
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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He remarked that "some good reactionaries are needed to settle such all-important questions as censorship, and the freedom of the press." When asked after the meeting to define "conservatives and radicals," he admitted that the average conservative is a man just too lazy to act; he is willing to...
"Do not hurt him," boomed President IbaÑez, "merely arrest him. Tie him up!" Willing cattle-show officials hastened forward with cow halters and tethers. Securely trussed, Luis Olachea was bundled in an automobile. Aide-de-camp Larenas picked up his helmet, dusted his knees. Still the dignified dictator...
The Methods. Not covertly were the investigations conducted. With willing cooperation from college authorities, the investigators quizzed undergraduates, teachers, athletic officials. They opened files, read countless letters from preparatory school stalwarts who wished to be paid for college competition. Only at Oglethorpe University, where permission to search records and interview...
**In the current Nation ("radical" weekly), one Clarence E. Cason, sometime University of Wisconsin rhetoric pedagog, tells the woeful tale of Jeff Burrus, "the university's best electric signboard," Phi Beta Kappa member, Junior Prom chairman, footballer, crew captain. Pedagog Cason said that Paragon Burrus suffered a nervous breakdown...
"Next!" say the barbers. "What next?" ask their clients, amazed at the number of things an up-to-date barber can do to willing subjects-haircuts, shaves, shampoos, massages, tonics, vibrations, bobs, curls, waves, electric treatments.