Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also left a lot of scars. A military strongman who gained dictatorial control of his country in 1948, P.J. poured Venezuela's rich oil royalties into an array of public works that made Caracas the most impressively prosperous-looking national capital in Latin America. But behind the building-boom facade, he operated a corrupt police state, with lush graft for insiders and imprisonment and torture for opponents. In P.J.'s torture chambers, prisoners were slashed with razors, burned with cigarettes, forced to sit for hours on blocks of ice. Some prisoners were force-fed harsh laxatives, and then...
Steel, the world's basic industry, is locked in a bitter international price war. With steel profits sliding in almost every industrialized nation-the auto boom and buying as a strike hedge made the U.S. an exception in the year's first half -catcalls and complaints of dumping and cheating are flying back and forth across national borders...
...biggest boom in U.S. medicine does not involve antibiotics or even contraceptive pills; it is the fast-growing popularity of hospital emergency rooms. Across the country they are flooded with an unprecedented number of patients. Since the end of World War II, the number of emergency-room admissions has jumped 500% , although the number of accident patients - formerly the bulk of all emergency-room cases - has remained stable at about 35 million a year. The U.S. public, says Manhattan's Dr. Robert H. Kennedy, director of a John A. Hart ford Foundation study group, is rapidly turning hospital emergency...
...almost totally spastic effect. Later O'Conner, played adequately by Dennis O'Keefe, tries to convince his family to come with him to his recently acquired theatre (a dilapidated church) in Seattle. His song's lyrics, "There's no battle, no rattle, in Seattle" followed by a boorish "Boom, boom, boom" are equally distasteful. Occasionally, in some of the comic routines, and in Miss Martin's warm expression of her love for life, in "Before I Kiss The World Goodbye" the score redeems itself...
...made of Fiberglas instead of wood for easier maintenance and easier production, held six in the cockpit instead of the maximum of three people that most sailboats are ideally designed to carry. It rode far up in the water to decrease splashing while under way, had a peculiarly high boom to clear landlubbers' heads when it swung around too fast, included such gadgets as shelves for feminine gear. An ugly duckling it was, but at $2,000 apiece O'Day got so many orders for Day Sailers that it took his tiny plant nearly three years to catch...