Word: boing
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...revelations from the sheep of Bo and Peep...
...Clarke's Childhood's End. It was born in 1975 when a distinguished-looking couple held a series of West Coast meetings to announce that a spaceship would soon arrive to swoop up properly trained apostles into the "next level" of existence. The pair called themselves only "Bo and Peep" or-because of their claim to be the "two witnesses" of the End Times in Revelation II-"The Two." With end-of-the-millennium enthusiasm, as many as 200 people forsook jobs and possessions, even spouses and children, and suddenly followed Bo and Peep into the wilderness...
...soon becomes apparent that Rotten knows maybe five words to the song--but who the hell knows the words to "Tumbling Dice," or could ever understand Bo Diddley? Rotten fills in with a banshee wail, like an infant tossed in boiling water. He begins a dialogue with the band: "It's fuckin' awful. Stop it. It's fuckin' awful. Oy oy Steve, Road Runner...
...sheer immensity of the amount may be partly to blame. Bo Cutter, the man from the Office of Management and Budget who directs the preparation of the budget, has made it a point to remind his staff repeatedly that a million dollars is a lot of money. In the hundreds-of-billions environment, a million dollars can be lost like a rolling penny heading for a sewer grate. Cutter has had his staff calculate some other reminders: a million dollars' worth of quarters stands almost as high as Mount Everest; the number of stacked quarters in this year...
During his six years in the Senate, Haskell did little to capture public attention. In 1976 he was one of the leading critics of Ford Campaign Manager Howard ("Bo") Callaway for trying to influence Government policies to benefit a Colorado ski area owned by Callaway's family. This year Haskell sponsored legislation that would have set up a new Government agency to regulate imports of sweeteners, and thus benefit Colorado's sugar beet growers by, in effect, raising domestic sugar prices...