Word: bandwagoners
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Certainly the sportswriter will be the first to jump on the "athletics builds men" bandwagon, for his profession argues that the contrivances of the sports world before a public crowd have something newsworthy. Sportswriters, it could be argued, may not have the earth-shattering events that direct the world (though riots in Pittsburgh may present a case), but the sports world captures that quality of life experience that the reader seeks to know and understand...
...legitimate government of China, Washington is reluctant to let a longstanding ally down-or to be seen to do so-and is also concerned that the U.N. might set an unfortunate precedent should it expel a well-behaved charter member. More important, the U.S. wishes to prevent any bandwagon rush to Peking, thereby giving many smaller nations time to adjust to the new triangular world in which the U.S. will be conducting big-power diplomacy with both Moscow and Peking. As it turned out, the U.S. lost one procedural vote and won another...
...dancing schools across the country, there was a sudden demand for lessons in the nearly lost tapsichorean art. Vogue jumped on the bandwagon last March by suggesting that "a few tap lessons might be just the thing to stir up lots of good feelings" and advising readers to call Dance Magazine for details. The response was overwhelming. Dance's Nancy Mason, who fielded the inquiries, says that for weeks "I was spending most of my day telling people where to go to learn to tap-dance...
...Coop jumped on the bandwagon by advertising "Slightly Used" Naval Uniforms for a mere $22.50. Humphrey Bogart hit town in a new flick called Casablanca. And a move to liberalize parietal hours by permitting women in the dorms until 8 p.m. instead of seven (just a few years earlier, the rule that required that a third person also be present had fallen by the wayside) was defeated by the masters...
Nevertheless, Lieut. General Robert J. Dixon, the Air Force Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel, found it necessary last week to jump on the bandwagon. At a Pentagon press conference he summed up some of the new policies being pushed by his boss, Chief of Staff General John Ryan. They include reducing inspections, granting men time off in exchange for overtime work, giving airmen more time to get their families settled when they change stations...