Word: flushes
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...bulges into hundreds, and the A.F.L.-C.I.O. pays a bounty of 40? for every new voter. The goal is 40,000 voters, which would cost the union $16,000. On Election Day the A.F.L.-C.I.O. will pay thousands of members $25 each to take off from their jobs and flush out the vote in Michigan. The formula: canvass Democratic areas block by block, drive voters to the polls, pass out "idiot sheets" that tell how and for whom to pull the lever. When need be, the unionists also baby...
There are other reasons, too, which do not find their cure in capital punishment. In the case of immigrants, the youths in question are dislocated from one society and placed flush in the middle of another. Given the impoverished community in which they live, given the economic insecurity confronting their parents, it becomes easier to see why the process of readjustment often manifests itself in socially unacceptable forms...
...Alma, a spinsterish ex-schoolteacher. Each day is an agreeable carbon of the one before. Boyd grumbles contentedly about Alma's bluntness, stinginess and love of gossip. Alma gets comfortably cross at Boyd's deafness, his lack of interest in scandal, his irritating habit of forgetting to flush the toilet...
Michigan: In one of the most strongly unionized states in the land, Walter Reuther's United Auto Workers are driving hard for Kennedy in the local halls and on the assembly lines, will pay thousands of members to stay away from their jobs and flush out the vote on Election Day. Detroit's Wayne County is the most heavily Democratic area in the North, and local polls give wide leads to Kennedy among its many Negroes (86% for Kennedy), Jews (80%), Catholics (79%), unskilled laborers (69%), immigrants (63%). But the Republicans are equally strong outstate, and better organized...
...buyers last week was the Bank of Italy, flush with the dollars from Olympic Games' tourists; it seemed to be hedging its bet against any further cheapening of the dollar. Other major purchasers were Middle Eastern residents, panicky over the Jordanian bombings, who were converting their currencies into the safest of all assets. The rising purchases and rising price sounded a new warning to the U.S. Treasury, which has been steadily losing gold for three years. This drain, as Chase Manhattan Bank Vice Chairman David Rockefeller said last week, though no cause for immediate alarm, is "perhaps the most...