Word: wagging
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wag and Purr. Pets are the surrogate children- and husbands and wives- of Western society, returning, for kibbles and kisses, companionship and devotion, or at least a cool tolerance accepted as love. Like pharaohs and czars and Caesars, Americans surround themselves with absurdly exalted animals. In a disjointed society and a disquieting world, these anthropomorphized adoptees can be counted on to wag and purr and warble, warming human hearts and hearths until they pass expensively on to await us in the Great Pet Sheraton Upstairs...
...Honey, if I was Wilbur, I'd never let you go in the water," quipped an elderly wag to Burleycutie Annabella Battistella, alias Fanne Fox, 38. The somewhat dampened Argentine firecracker was in Boston's Pilgrim Theater making her first public appearance since she leaped from Representative Wilbur Mills' limo and took a header into Washington's Tidal Basin. After nursing a couple of shiners in her Arlington, Va., flat (in the same building as the Mills' apartment), Anna returned to the career of burlesque dancer she gave up on Mills' advice a year...
...covered their return at Kennedy International Airport found them still in fine fettle. "Anyone can go on a cruise and say it was lovely and fun," said New Yorker Diane Holze. "But we were part of the news. We were making news and enjoying it." "Anyone," added one wag, "who claims it was a horror tale is guilty of a base cunard." Some passengers were talking of an annual reunion aboard the Q.E. 2-in New York harbor. Dr. George Lawrence vowed that his yacht club at Bayside, N.Y., would in future serve all veterans of the non-ship-trip...
...fields. So while the theoreticians continued their great and noisy debate, the technicians quietly gave us the beginnings of a counterforce capability. No policy decision was ever made in favor of counterforce, but the capability continued to grow. The forces began to determine the strategy; the tail began to wag...
...That's playing with history," objected State Cultural Properties Review Committee Chairman Albert Schroeder. "It's the most ridiculous thing I've ever heard," said State Historian Myra Ellen Jenkins. As the controversy wore on, one Santa Fe wag suggested placing a fig leaf over the word savage. Someone else proposed a second obelisk dedicated to "the gallant Indians who died fighting for their homeland...