Word: barbe
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Barb Grant skippered the A division boat crewed by Ann Hoffner to tie for the lead after the first day of competition. Janice Stroud, hampered by a cold, had a bad day, and was trailing by 11 points after Saturday's races in the B division...
...well over a million words a day-250,000 alone by the Associated Press staff of 200. Besides the reporters from U.S. dailies, reporters descended on Miami Beach from 64 foreign countries, including nine from the Soviet Union; all manner of underground publications, from Rolling Stone to the Berkeley Barb; and 206 college papers, some with copy deadlines as distant as the start of the fall term...
Amidst all the obsequious effusions, there was a glancing barb at the Queen's taste in hats-"For 20 years the same hat, to avoid hurting her hatter's feelings," teased one columnist...
...Little Orphan Annie), a relatively new phenomenon, underground comics, is pursuing radical political and sexual themes that their aboveground brothers would never dare to touch. Begun in the mid-'60s, the undergrounds, or head comic books, such as Zap and Despair and strips in papers like the Berkeley Barb and Manhattan's East Village Other, speak for the counterculture in a zany, raunchy and often obscene idiom. In one issue of the East Village Other, a strip depicts an Army company in Viet Nam. The sergeant's command "Present arms!" literally brings out the arms...
Last December, when Edward Carlson took over United Air Lines, company wits spread the gag that he would ground U.A.L.'s superjets and run them as hotels. The point of the barb: Carlson had risen from bellhop to president of the Seattle-based Western International Hotel chain, but his airline background was limited to less than five months of sitting on United's board after Western was merged into U.A.L. If anything, lack of experience in the deficit-ridden industry has proved an advantage. In 1970 United lost almost $41 million, but last week it reported a third...