Word: nabbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...cost is relatively low. Job Corps trainees cost the Government an average of more than $7,000 per man, and the dropout rate is higher. One NAB official predicts that the average JOBS trainee in his region will pay the Government's investment back in as few as 20 months through his own taxes and his absence from welfare rolls...
Neither the economic nor the human success of the program is achieved without some hardship. Says Boston's NAB director, Joe Breiteneicher: "You've got to get whites already on the job to work alongside the black, the ex-con, the dropout, and we're often sending them all three in one." The new employees are sometimes met with hostility: a Negro in Boston was run down by a fork lift, another was felled by a dropped pallet...
Offsetting that fraternal knife job was the performance of Chuck's sister, Marguerite Trenham Robb, 19, a gabby gamine who failed to nab Lynda's bouquet but caught the fancy of every member of the wedding ("Trenny, you're cute," sighed L.B.I.). An aspiring fashion designer and model, Trenny set the White House asparkle during the wedding week with her five rings, her silver miniskirts, her flowing brown tresses and her Twiggy eyelashes. "You know," she suggested out of nowhere one day, "I ought to start a romance with George-wouldn't that...
...calls them "bennies" or "copilots." Equally knowledgeable is Harold Leap, agent of the year-old U.S. Bureau of Drug Abuse Control and head of its St. Louis office. Disguised as truck drivers, Leap's D-men have bought illegal bennies time and again, but not just to nab roadside peddlers. They aim to buy supplies of bennies wholesale, and thus trace the black-market drugs back to their source...
...increase and violence in the attacks. Under the stress of modern life, more and more parents apparently vent anger and frustration on the easiest targets at hand. But while it is relatively easy to recognize a case of child beating, it is relatively difficult to nab the child beaters. They invariably deny responsibility, often take the victim to a different doctor after each successive beating. Since the infant can rarely speak for himself, the parental denial reinforces a doctor's natural hesitation to consider beating as the cause of injury. To make matters worse, doctors fear being sued...