Word: split
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Suburbia has long had a special place in American social mythology. Its chroniclers in fiction are John Cheever and Peter De Vries, its poet laureate Phyllis McGinley. The $50,000 split level is its castle, the barbecue chef its master of the revels, the station wagon its chariot, the 8:03 or the clogged expressway its cup of doom. Few modern Americans feel much nostalgia for the farm or the small town, and most now find the once glittering big cities tarnished with decay. The pull of the suburb has been so strong that suburbanites are becoming the most numerous...
...hour. As with U.S.-Soviet relations, Nixon explained, consensus is probably impossible. Still, he said, the mutual goal is to keep the peace, so grounds for accommodation can and must be found. His startling analogy brought to mind the Kerner Commission's prediction that the U.S. will split into "two societies...
...American Medical Association, long under attack by liberals and now by the radical left as an obstacle to medical progress and a bastion of money-minded reaction, displayed a split personality at its annual convention in Chicago last week...
...Ranch. The leader in that new industry goes by the name of Kampgrounds of America, Inc. or KOA. It has opened 384 campgrounds so far, and earned $375,000 last year on revenues of $3,500,000. Since the company went public a year ago, its stock has split three for two; adjusted for the split, it has risen from $8.33 to $17.50 despite a bear market. The company has even sprouted a subsidiary: Ranch Kampgrounds of America, which has five operating, holiday camps,, one of them on a 75,000-acre cattle ranch at Chugwater...
...much, so Bob, who goes to Harvard, had to ask Roger to leave. For a while after that, he could be reached in care of Hayes Bickford's, but now he's really gone. He's not on the streets at least. Maybe he's split for California? Maybe he's in a hospital...