Word: afoot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...there was one more theory afoot. When one bellboy complained to a college-age girl he was chasing that her father was being rather stingy in the favors he dispensed, she stared at him almost dumbfounded. "Look," she said, "the way daddy figures it, you're all Harvard guys and he's a Harvard man and he just doesn't see any need for one Harvard to give money to another...
...English Department and the Department of Afro-American Studies will each appoint one woman as lecturer. In addition rumors are afoot concerning the appointment of a woman to an assistant professorship in the Music Department...
There seems to be a movement towards the past afoot, particularly among whites. A return to Jeffersonian concepis of necrophilia. In the past, these periods when America seemed to be doing an intellectual about-face have always coincided with a loss of black people's rights, a breaking of what seemed to be a progressive trust. Do you see any way of counteracting this trend...
...which, in turn, will choose a new Politburo. The choices, of course, have already been made by the party leaders. The general assumption has been that few major shifts will take place. But Brezhnev dropped an intriguing hint in his speech that something dramatic and far reaching may be afoot. He noted that the Communist Party now has 14,455,321 card-carrying members -6% of the Soviet population-and that far too many of them, on all levels, are merely exploiting their positions. Accordingly, he said that for the first time in 17 years, there might be a "card...
...Senior Correspondent John Steele, for asking some fundamental questions: "Do we really need this? Is it so important to be first in every phase of technology? Are there other things we want and need from life instead? It is obvious to winners and losers alike that something new is afoot-a questioning of old values, old landmarks of progress, old priorities...