Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...many years ago, snow tires were little more than an oddity on U.S. highways. About all they did then was whine; now they are booming. This year the tire industry will sell 12.5 million of them compared with only 3,850,000 as recently as 1957. To keep the boom going, it has brought out a revolutionary type of snow tire: one with tiny metallic studs imbedded in the rubber to increase traction...
...Boom-Boom. Back in the U.S. the combo's "ethnic jazz" gained a wide audience. But in the mounting din of his drummers Mann found himself becoming "a sideman in my own group" and he fled to Brazil. He came back playing a new music that helped touch off the bossa-nova craze...
...ambition-"to be to the flute what Benny Goodman is to the clarinet"-Mann is looking for new worlds of music to translate into the third thing. "At the moment," he says, "I'm very interested in American Indian music. There's more to it than just boom-boom, boom-boom, you know. The possibilities are endless...
Sartori explained that the European economic boom is over and that France and other nations are no longer willing to make sacrifices for the sake of unity. "DeGaulle's opposition to unity is insuperable--De Gaulle is everything," he said...
...about 650 m.p.h., just over the speed of sound. Distressed FAA officials estimated the overpressure at 25 Ibs. to 40 Ibs. per square foot, but there was no way to be sure; they had already turned off their test equipment. What was scientifically certain was that a big enough boom at a low enough altitude can cause real damage...