Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ISSUN BOSHI, THE INCHLING by Momoko Ishii, illustrated by Fuku Akino (Walker; $3.50). Another old Japanese fable, handsomely illustrated. The hero is no bigger than a man's thumb and is resigned to life as a paperweight for a beautiful princess. But then he slays a dreadful demon, and guess what his reward is? A wish on a magic mallet transforms him into a full-size man and he marries the princess to live happily ever after...
...bought in minipounds rises, the gains of devaluation will be dissipated by inflation. Though the giant Transport and General Workers' Union agreed to go along with a voluntary pay freeze, the striking dock workers refused to go back to work last week. There were also undisguised rumblings for bigger pay packets from the rank and file that may make it difficult for Wilson to hold the line on wage increases...
...they voted to impose small prescription and health-insurance fees on pensioners, of sabotaging the coal-mining Ruhr because they refuse to block U.S. oil imports, and of giving aid and comfort to capitalists because Socialist Economics Minister Karl Schiller has pumped government spending into industry instead of giving bigger unemployment benefits to workers. The discontent has grown so great that it has threatened to undercut the positions of the Socialist leaders in Bonn and to paralyze the workings of the coalition...
...organize a light construction cooperative because, as one teenager explained, "We want to be more independent and make more money." "We have about $280 in the bank," another added. "So we could buy saws, hammers, buffers, and other equipment. Then we'd be able to take on some bigger jobs...
This is what happens to everyone. At first yo uget bigger, you know more,Then something goes wrong. You are, and you say: I am -- And you were...I've been too long...