Word: boom
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Dozens of rudimentary printing presses are responsible for an astonishing boom in illegal samizdat (self-published) periodicals, manifestoes and even books that are currently circulating by the thousands of copies throughout Poland. Reflecting a wide range of dissident opinion, the samizdat publications are symptomatic of the mounting discontent that has made the country potentially the most unstable nation in Communist East Europe. Today there are at least twelve regularly published underground journals. Their criticism of the regime of Party Chief Edward Gierek* goes well beyond economic problems. It includes sweeping demands for democracy and freedom from Soviet hegemony...
...night of Aug. 13 was one that Lucy Parlange, wife of a plantation owner near New Roads, La., will never forget. She recalls: "We were sitting up here on the gallery, when we heard this terrific sound, like a sonic boom. I thought the air conditioner in the kitchen had blown up." What had really blown was a giant natural-gas well that probably will make Lucy and her husband, Walter Parlange, royalty rich...
...field. Unafraid of big tacklers, the Rams' Harold Jackson dreads a hit from undersized defensive backs: 'When a bigger guy hits you, he just hits you enough to put you down. But those little guys are trying to take your head off; they really let down the boom on you." No matter what their target-gnat or giant-the little men can be big trouble. Is overcompensation, a Napoleon complex? Gray admits to a special joy in beating the big guys. Says he: "I like to look at the expressions on their faces after I beat them running...
...alternative service, as a clerk at a Los Angeles hospital. Carefully mapping out his life, the Cassius side of Dreyfuss planned on ten years of acting apprenticeship. But before he could get started, he says, in a voice that wavers somewhere between woe and wonder, "the movies happened-boom! boom! boom!" American Graffiti led to The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, which led to Jaws-which led to the beginning of a breakdown. The movie was just a big fish story, says Dreyfuss, and he "felt like a whore" acting...
...trend is longterm. He cites as evidence the fact that the slowdown in mobility is occurring in the more highly educated levels of U.S. society, the very group traditionally most prone to prowl. His point: if mobility is declining at a time when a bumper crop of baby-boom college graduates is appearing on the scene, the trend is probably a powerful one. It is a message that has already got through to many corporations. People who are willing to move wherever the company sends them, says Polaroid Vice President Joseph McLaughlin, "are at this point almost a special breed...