Word: words
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...believe that the "Warbler of Watergate" [Dec. 5] and the "Household Word" would have made a simply marvelous match...
Experiment will be the key word...
...least in part, by its successor. Novel ideas are taken up by liberals, conservatives react in horror-and inch to the left. Today's Great Silent Majority is certainly more liberal than its predecessor of 20 years ago. The radicals disapprovingly call this process "corporation." The ungainly word sums up the best political hope for the decade: that the broad middle of American society will adopt the legitimate ideas of the radicals (as it has come close to adopting the idea of a guaranteed annual wage) while discarding the excesses. Finally, it seems inconceivable that strife...
...himself overthrown three previous Presidents. Kouandété replaced Soglo with Zinsou, who struggled to overcome Dahomey's budget deficit of $3,000,000 by cutting government salaries and freezing wages. He succeeded only in setting off a series of strikes. His undoing came when word leaked out that he planned to cut the army's size and replace Kouandété. Despite the drawbacks of the job, the candidates are already lining up. As soon as Kouandété announced that political exiles were welcome to return home, three exiled ex-Presidents cabled...
...furor bubbled over this fall, few Americans paid much heed to the minute lettering on their cakes and candy bars, diet drinks and instant dinners. Even a magnifying glass was little help in explaining those obscure polysyllables: propylene glycol, calcium silicate, butylated hydroxyanisole, sorbitan monostearate, methylparaben. Today, the portmanteau word for such substances is "additives"-which translates into myriad chemicals that have made even bread a laboratory product and the cheese spread to put on it a test-tube concoction...