Word: plaint
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Lake Erie is a dead lake. Save the rest of the Great Lakes." So went the environmentalists' plaint during the 1960s. Lake Erie was not, in fact, quite dead, but it was suffering from a variety of serious disorders, including a seemingly uncheckable algae growth that, like a fast-spreading cancer, was choking off the other forms of life. Though the remaining four of North America's great chain of lakes-Superior, Michigan, Huron and Ontario-were less diseased, they too showed symptoms of serious, man-made illness...
...airlines were hotels, most of them would be out of business. This familiar plaint of the frequent passenger was quantified last week with publication of a 1980 travel guide assembled by Egon Ronay, one of Britain's most acerbic critics of pretentious food and sloppy service. For the first time in its 22 years, Ronay's Lucas Guide (Penguin; $9.95) goes beyond its customary survey of British restaurants and inns to rate-and berate-14 Britain-to-North America carriers. Some of them may want to head for the nearest cloud...
...coach Edie MacAusland will lead her field hockey team on its second game today, when Northeastern's stick-women come to Soldiers Field for a 4 p.m. start. In that perennial plaint--endemic to field leaders at Harvard and around the world--MacAusland promises a rebuilding year...
...appeal to a much wider circle, however, than those presently engaged in concentrated punk. The most surprising song yet to come from the Ramones is the next to last song on the record, "Needles and Pins." Like the other slow tune, "Questioningly," "Needles and Pins" is a lover's plaint. Again, there is the problem that Joey Ramone simply sounds weird doing what is actually a creditable Elvis imitation as he sings of failed teenage love. But I suppose I could get used to it, and the song is one more mark of how relatively versatile the group has become...
Urban shoppers, stunned as they are at beef prices climbing 4% in April alone and perhaps another 5% in May, should not lightly dismiss this plaint. To do so risks biting the hand that feeds. The U.S. cattleman is the descendant of the romantic cowboy, and for the most part he preserves those storied virtues of ruggedness, independence and dawn-to-dark hard work. But he is also a modern businessman, worried about cash flow and capital costs and, of course, interest rates. Says a typical cattle raiser in Oregon: "My family has been in this business for three generations...