Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...year, and in Puerto Rico, where women have become so enthusiastic about sterilization that it is known simply as "la operation," the slowdown in population increase is often attributed to a rising level of education and economic wellbeing. But to the confusion of the experts came the unforeseen baby boom in the postwar U.S.-at a time when education and incomes were at an alltime high. The boom shows no sign of abating...
...West Germany has absorbed 12.8 million refugees from East Germany and Eastern Europe; yet thanks to soaring living standards and industrial production. West German employers today are so desperate for labor that they are reduced to stealing it from each other. In the U.S., most economists cite the baby boom as one of their reasons for business optimism: in the short run, the 4,400,000 infants to be born during 1960 mean $3 billion more in the till for manufacturers of baby food, clothing, furniture, toys, and accessories...
...jump and two-hand set with deceptive speed, arches his shots so high they can even clear the soaring blocks of Philadelphia's mighty Wilt ("The Stilt") Chamberlain (7 ft. 2 in., 250 Ibs.). Says the Boston Celtics' Coach Red Auerbach: "Show Twyman a little daylight and-boom-it's up and in." Dogged Development. Last week, given a little daylight by Boston, Twyman scored 40 points to lead the Royals to a 128-115 victory that snapped the champions' winning streak at 17, just one short of a new N.B.A. record. By week...
...Bright Boom. In the garish '20s of the black bottom and the Charleston, Gilda's shimmy seemed to sparkle with a special sheen. She danced in the Ziegfeld Follies and George White's Scandals. She worked with the big names: Will Rogers, Gallagher & Shean. She earned the reputation of being one of the highest paid performers in the world, and she could brag of having made $4,000,000 in only ten years on the stage...
...those bright years of the boom, Gilda's private life could not keep up with her public success. She had married at eleven, borne a son at twelve, and she was deserted by the time she was 14. She married her manager, one Gil Boag, in 1924, and was divorced again in 1929. She tried once more in 1933 with a Venezuelan diplomat named Hector Briceno de Saa. That marriage ended...