Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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That did not bother Bobby. He was growing bigger every day-too big, in fact, for his britches. Once, during this period, he told a group of visiting political-science scholars: "On any issue, I have at least ten Senators in the palm of my hand." At the same time, says a Senate aide, who watched Bobby's rise with some awe, "the lobbyists were swarming around his office like flies. They buttered him up, kept telling him how great he was, and I think a lot of his trouble now comes because he got to believing...
...that fits into a pack of filter-tip cigarettes. It is padded to feel soft and shows the ends of real cigarettes to reassure a suspicious businessman or divorce-prone spouse-provided he doesn't ask for a smoke. Bertsche believes that bugs in time may be no bigger than a pencil eraser, recorders as small as a cigarette lighter...
...become of Tony, and they bought almost 2,000,000 copies to find out. Wasting no time, Bennett belted out three more hit disks whose titles faithfully reflected his brightening fortunes: I Wanna Be Around, The Good Life, This Is All I Ask. Today, at 37, Tony boasts bigger record sales than Frankie, Perry, Eddie, or any other old standby, and can confidently look forward to a real Bing Crosby future...
Skinny Prosperity. Expanding sales are not necessarily followed by bigger profits for dealers. Appliance prices have been pushed down by discounting, intense competition among two dozen major manufacturers, and the spread of the private-label brands sold by the chains. The average refrigerator, which now sells for $278, costs 25% less than in 1951, and prices of washers have dropped 10% in the same period. The appliance dealers' association estimates that profits will increase less than 1% this year and that 5% of the small dealers will fold. Many of the remaining independents are banding together...
...biggest dividend from the stay-out will not be School Committee concessions, or increasing civil rights participation, but the useful strain it puts on the leadership itself. As the demonstrations grow bigger and the objectives become more complex, civil rights groups will have to add trained personnel to their staffs to cope with burgeoning administrative duties. Organizers and fund-raisers will have to be employed on a full-time basis. The Boston movement can begin to build the kind of civil rights "bureaucracy" that has proved so crucial to the sustained, sophisticated struggle in New York. There, part-time civil...