Word: boom
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Virtually every leading economist-along with the business and banking communities and Government fiscal experts-believes that a general tax rise is mandatory if the U.S. is to escape what might be a runaway boom (see BUSINESS). The gross national product grew at a frenetic $20 billion pace during the first quarter, while consumer prices soared at the rate of at least 4% a year-faster than at any other period since the Korean War year...
Sontag's arguments are eloquent and stimulating, posing necessary questions about the meaning and effect of the photography boom. But there is also a disturbing sense in which Sontag is unfair to photography, a sense in which she sounds very much the New York intellectual ready to reject photography for being too popular. In a passage dripping with arrogance and elitism, she writes...
FREDDY CANNON'S position has been lifted to the top of the second rank only in recent years, as students have come to appreciate the Boom-Boom's husky, 150 per cent voice, the kind that anyone can imitate if he doesn't mind being hoarse the rest of the day. Cannon's best song, Palisades Park, is extra-auteur; he owes his place to the "whoooo" of Way Down Yonder in New Orleans, Talla-hassie Lassie, and Transistor Sister...
McCulloch's twin-boom J-2 gyroplane can virtually duplicate the performance of a helicopter. It can make a jump takeoff, cruise at 120 m.p.h., maintain altitude at a forward speed of only 30 m.p.h. and settle gently to a spot landing. Should its engine fail in flight, the gyroplane can float safely to earth under its whirling rotor, much like a Cracker Jack toy. It cannot, however, match the helicopter's unique feat of hovering motionless in midair...
Only two other men in N.H.L. history-Richard and Montreal's Bernie ("Boom Boom") Geoffrion-have scored 50 goals in a season; each hit 50 on the nose and did it only once. Hull scored 50 in 1961-62, then 54 in 1965-66 and 52 last season; his game-winning goal against the Seals last week was his 41st of this year, with 15 games still to play. Bobby holds a bagful of assorted other records, including most seasons scoring 40 goals or more (five), and most points-counting both goals and assists-scored in a season...