Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...honorable American pasttime. One of the most active current crusaders on this front is William A. Shurcliffe, whose role at Harvard is senior research assistant at the Cambridge Electron Accelerator, but whom Congressmen and airplane builders know better as the muckraking director of the Citizens League Against the Sonic Boom...
...precise as what the economists have for the economic system." Nor do the social scientists have a measurement for social values akin to the dollar, although one possible theoretical unit is called the "utile," used by economists to weigh the price people would pay to avoid the sonic boom of an SST, for example, as against the economic benefits that the plane would give them...
...today it is Morocco's second biggest (after agriculture) and fastest growing industry. During 1969, 650,000 foreign tourists, 50,000 of them Americans, are expected to visit what Moroccans call the "Fortunate Kingdom." Many will come in the summer, when the sun is fiercer. But the big boom is now, in winter. These days, only the lucky find hotel rooms ("We just had to turn Charlie Chaplin away," a clerk at Marrakesh's Mamounia Hotel boasted last month, probably falsely). The rest have to make do with tents, trailers or sleeping bags slung somewhere along Morocco...
Harlem's overwhelming musical impact on the jazz age is conveyed by a room where pictures of Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson and Bessie Smith are flashed onto eight screens, while loudspeakers boom their music...
With a mixture of prophecy and prescription, Lyndon Johnson last week summed up the chief economic challenge that he bequeaths to Richard Nixon. In his final economic report to Congress, he called for a strategy aimed at slowly reducing both inflation and the excessive boom in business. The principal ingredients are a small-and perhaps precarious-budget surplus (see THE NATION) and a Federal Reserve Board policy of permitting the supply of money and credit to expand less than it has over the past three years. What the nation must avoid, warned Johnson, is "an overdose of restraint" that could...