Word: hack
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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MAINE: The only question here is the margin of victory for Sen. Edmund Muskie. He is opposed, for the sake of form rather than out of hopes for victory, by an old style hack politician named Neil S. Bishop who has run unsuccessfully for a number of state-wide offices since he entered polities in the 1940S. Muskie won with 67 per cent of the vote in 1964 and will have to equal or top this to remain the front runner for the Democratic Presidential nomination...
...Massachusetts' Third District, the peace candidate is Father Robert Drinan. A Jesuit priest and Dean of the Boston College Law School, Father Drinan defeated 72-year-old incumbent Democrat Philip Philbin '18 in the September 15th Democratic primary. Given little chance of defeating Philbin who was labeled a "hack" by the Wall Street Journal, Father Drinan surprised everyone with his decisive victory...
Drivers also complain that the screens cut them off from an important fringe benefit of their jobs: conversation with passengers. Some riders, however, might appreciate the blessed and unusual quiet. Other experiments have had equally spotty success. More than 5,000 New York policemen now hold hack licenses and moonlight as cabbies. In addition, cops drive decoy cabs, and squad cars often follow taxis into high-crime areas. In some cities, a few cabs are equipped with police radios. Despite these measures, the cab crime rate in New York City has continued to soar. As one police official says: "Taxis...
...ecological art-as apt a name as any -sounds eccentric, it is. But it is also demanding. Its practitioners sweat and swim, dig trenches, hack through ice, suffer desert winds or the muscle aches of long climbs-all for the sake of a few photographs and a memory. No one intent merely on economic security would go in for it, since it results in little that can be sold or even framed. But a considerable number of artists, some young, some not so young, have committed themselves to it. So, as Arthur Miller might say, attention must be paid...
...army on the mountain. He worked on models, and in 1923 was given a $250,000 contract for the first seven figures. But he was thrown off the job in 1925 because his patrons felt he was not working as hard as he might. Borglum retreated in pique to hack out the second largest sculpture in the world-Mount Rushmore...