Word: boomingly
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...eight productive years as Secretary of Commerce under Presidents Harding and Coolidge (he promoted arbitration rather than litigation in trade disputes, achieved standardization of some 3,000 industrial products, championed modernization of railroads and such huge river-control projects as Hoover Dam), Hoover repeatedly warned against "the rising boom and orgy of speculation." He complained that loose monetary policies of the Federal Reserve Board would lead to an "inevitable collapse which will bring the greatest calamities upon our farmers, our workers and legitimate business." But amid Coolidge prosperity, Hoover was denounced as "a crapehanger...
Late in the game the ball was traveling back and forth in a manner reminiscent of a tennis match. The Exonians would stumble downfield with the ball and Crimson fullbacks David Wright and Charlie Lotspeich would boom it right back. When the gun sounded, Getchell huddled his team, told them. "Let's just forget about this one," and led the cheer for the vanquished Exonians...
Less tangible evidence suggests that voters have accepted Labour as the safer party. The Conservative boom appears shaky, and the Tories have clearly not made the kind of economic and social changes that Britain needs to keep up with the U.S. and the Common Market. Conservative politicians have appeared unsure while Mr. Wilson and his party--even when the polls went against them--were confident and optimistic...
Plea for Understanding. "The Court is making decisions boom, boom, boom. Many of them are too absolute to fit a country of 190 million diverse people," frets a Yale professor. "Of all three branches of Government," says Republican Presidential Candidate Barry Goldwater, "today's Supreme Court is the least faithful to the constitutional tradition of limited Government and to the principle of legitimacy in the exercise of power...
...eight times that speed. It can airlift a ton of cargo or a fully armed squad of paratroopers, take off from a bumpy jungle airfield less than 500 ft. long, land on a strip only 100 ft. in length. For all its old-fashioned air, though, from its twin-boom fuselage to its lofty, boxlike tail, the Charger is as radically...