Word: 1940s
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Opening his attack on inflation last week, President Ford came on like a curious mixture of two radio programs from the 1940s: Gang Busters and Fibber McGee and Molly. In the best Gang Busters fashion, he told cheering Congressmen that he considered inflation "public enemy No. 1" and pledged a resolute fight against it. Yet what he disclosed of his arsenal of weaponry for the battle seemed a Fibber McGee closet crowded with familiar ideas that have been tried, or at least noisily advocated, before...
Discontent deepened after Founder Flanagan's ailing successor was replaced last October by Father Robert P. Hupp, a fatherly former Navy chaplain. Hupp recruited psychologists, counselors and social workers-including an ex-convict -to bring the community out of the 1940s. Boys Town also bought a house in Omaha to aid older boys with their reentry into society...
Kistiakowsky, a physicist who worked at Los Alamos, N.M., in the 1940s, developing the atomic bomb, called the recent Moscow summit talks a "complete and total fraud...
...handy rubric. The music itself is one of the most exuberant, rich and versatile brands of pop to come along since the heyday of Dylan and the Beatles. From the flowering of boogie-woogie and swing in the 1930s to the advent of bebop and then cool in the 1940s, jazz has lived and gained new ground through hybridization...
First Taste. Thoughts like that never entered Hancock's head when he was growing up on Chicago's South Side in the 1940s. Because his best friend had one, Herbie asked for and got a piano at age seven. By age eleven, he was good enough to play the first movement of Mozart's Piano Concerto No. 26 in D with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. In high school he got his first taste of jazz listening to the records of George Shearing and Oscar Peterson and trying to duplicate their sounds. At Iowa's Grinnell College...