Word: annually
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...hour strike this month because some train drivers have lost pay as unprofitable service has been curtailed. But handling such problems will be difficult. The powerful Trades Union Congress has gone so far as to snub the Prime Minister by not even asking him to address its annual meeting this week...
...fact, the American appetite for statistics seems insatiable, and the statisticians obligingly crank out an unending supply, ranging from the annual per-capita consumption of paper (540 Ibs.) to the number of dishes (nine) that the typical family breaks in the course of a year. Sports fans are longtime lovers of the well-tempered statistic. To know that Roger Maris replaced Babe Ruth as the home-run king through a fluke in total games played, is to be an aficionado instead of an amateur. For the average American, to be told that a lofting astronaut has threaded a celestial needle...
...nation's biggest. Presumably every expenditure, down to janitors' salaries and the cost of the new gymnasium (also computed as part of the construction industry), is figured in. But then there is the $126.7 billion of Government spending, the $189 billion service industry, the $21 billion annual economic loss through crime, and the $25 billion that Vance Packard says is spent on disposable packages each year. The grand total has soon soared past the gross national product...
Odor of Self-Righteousness. "There is a certain kind of militant animal," writes Playwright John Osborne, "which seeks out and exploits political crises for reasons of personal aggrandizement and creative frustration. There is an odor of psychopathic self-righteousness about many of the hardy annual protesters. I have long ago refused to sign those glib and predictable letters to the Times, including the one during the recent Israeli crisis when so many of these cause-happy activists leapt to the telephone and their pens. The same principle applies to the Viet Nam war, the very name of which has become...
University of Michigan Sociologist John P. Robinson, 31, told the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association in San Francisco last week that a lengthy survey indicates that leisure time takes up about five hours a day, about the same portion of the day as in the 1930s, and that television now accounts for about a third...