Word: blah
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What killed home shelters was the lull in the cold war plus the Kennedy Administration's decision to stress large-scale, community shelters over backyard bunkers. Says Ray Toland Sr., a Los Angeles shelter maker who failed: "It's been a real loused-up deal. All this blah-blah-blah about a $30 shelter or a $300 shelter, and about private and community shelters. People got so confused they didn't know what was right-and they still don't." In Oklahoma City, the number of inquiries about shelters received monthly by one company has dropped...
...royal effort is also most successful: the King of Siam, it would appear, has a considerable talent for writing a luscious tune, and the Krokodiloes exploit it with their most melodious croons. Or almost their most melodious: the boys have also included their celebrated "Blah" (a gentle moaning jibe at movie songs...
...student and saw hundreds of pairs of eyes watching me attentively, I understood: this is serious. It was confirmed by the silence with which my explanations were followed. I admit that I was thinking out loud, and very feverishly. Until then I had rejected such subjects as so much blah-blah...
...which rated massive reviews (more than three columns in TIME, July 15, 1935) In 1941 Author Kanner took his case directly to the people with a book for laymen, In Defense of Mothers,*- revealingly subtitled: "How to Bring Up Children in Spite of the More Zealous Psychologists." "And More Blah-Blah." In this book Dr. Kanner said: "There is no raid shelter from the verbal bombs that rain on contemporary parents. At every turn they run up against weird words and phrases which are apt to confuse and scare them no end: Oedipus complex, inferiority complex, maternal rejection, sibling rivalry...