Word: blast
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Fringes. The part-time business is going full blast because many corporations, squeezed by shortages of office workers and rising wages, are not even trying to keep full staffs at the typewriters. When the need arises, they happily pay a premium for part-time help. In New York, for example, a temporary-help supplier might pay a typist the going rate of $2.50 an hour, but the company she works for is billed for $3.30-a 30% markup...
...dealers say the convertible's decline is largely caused by a blast of cold air. Air conditioning is the big extra in demand these days. Instead of going for a convertible, a buyer chooses a sporty job-maybe a hard-top with vinyl covering-installs air conditioning, and figures that's real cool...
...their rescue after six months spent among the polar wastes and the blubber." To Hemingway, he had "the eyes of an unsuccessful rapist." The object of these calumnies was Wyndham Lewis (1884-1957), British critic, novelist, painter, polemicist, gadfly and editor of the short-lived and incendiary artistic magazine, Blast. This partial autobiography, written in 1937 and now reissued, proves that Lewis could give as good as he got. His book bristles on almost every page with his endless resources for insult. Ezra Pound, after a first impression, was "a cowboy songster"; T. S. Eliot was "a Prufrock who would...
...black as panels of colored water rise inside them. A television screen set in the floor may go on, showing the viewer's face grinning nervously up at him. His voice may be recorded on a tape and played back to him. Sirens may blow and a wind blast up from a screen beneath the telephone; a ghostly echo of his words may resound in the booth, or a screen descend (the idea is to make shadow pictures on it with one's free hand). Finally, a Polaroid Land camera has been hooked into the circuit; when...
...hits in 36 trips to the plate to raise his 1967 average to over .330. There he found himself battling for third place in the standings with Cardinal First Baseman Orlando Cepeda, who won one game with a two-run homer-and clinched another with a three-run blast. Rightfielder Roger Maris, batting a solid .302, contributed an eleventh-inning double that drove in a winning run against the Houston Astros and an eighth-inning homer that beat the Philadelphia Phillies 3-2. Two other Cards -Centerfielder Curt Flood and Leftfielder Lou Brock-were batting well over .300 last week...