Word: four
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...work of a committee headed by William Benton,* onetime Senator from Connecticut, adman (Benton & Bowles), vice president of the University of Chicago (1937-45), publisher (1942-45) of the Encyclopaedia Britannica. The report's recommendation: federal expenditures for education of $1 billion a year at once, rising in four "stages" to $3 billion or $4 billion a year...
...Creation of a federal-state cooperative scholarship program to award annually 25,000 scholarships worth up to $1,000. usable in any accredited U.S. college or abroad "where desirable," for up to four years. The U.S. and the states would split the costs fifty-fifty, and in the fourth stage the total number of scholarships would...
...speakable anguish. "You people have absolutely no right to do this," he cried. "I am the Governor of the state of California, and I have things to say to the people of California." In Massachusetts, Governor Foster Furcolo once carried segregation so far as to answer the same question four times-first for the pencil newsmen and then for each of Boston's three commercial TV stations...
...Royal Passy Café near Brigitte's home, where Papa Charrier was serving champagne, two newsmen collapsed from exhaustion and someone poured beer over their heads. With cruel disregard for the photographers who had camped on her doorstep so long, Brigitte waited two days and then handed out four pictures of herself and her son taken by an amateur...
...drug addicts, and it has a sporadic, hypodermic sort of distinction. The junkies sit in a pad impatiently waiting, but for nothing so vague as Godot: they wait for their "connection" and the heroin he will bring. They numb the hall with torpor, draw beads on the audience with four-letter words, pick their eyes, ears, nails and noses, and squeeze the "green stuff" out of a boil on one man's neck. They trade hip remarks: "I don't have any marijuana, but how quaint of you to ask." Says a Negro junky: "We live...