Word: bored
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...that goes sssssss can be a big nuisance. Aerosol paint containers are an irresistible temptation to mischief makers (TIME, July 3). The aerosol foghorn, a boon for boating buffs, proved a nerve-shattering bore at political conventions this year...
Indeed there were: some 320 towns in Byelorussia alone bore names like Roofless, Slobsville and Dirt; Abscess, Deviltry and Grief.* There was a place called Snout, and another called Corn-on-the-Foot. In the Pinsk district, such villages as Breadless, Emaciation, The Hungry One and The Thin One reflected dishonor on the good offices (and great girth) of the inventor of Goulash Communism himself, Nikita Khrushchev...
...turned up a brokenhearted young Greek student who had been one of Margit's special friends. Taunted by Münch that he had perhaps been merely a passing fancy, the Greek whipped out a postcard of the Acropolis postmarked only a few days before in Athens. It bore no signature but only the message: "Now I can understand why you are homesick for your lovely country...
Pinpoint Precision. Coolness is still one of the man's most notable characteristics. Last week, as the Asian crisis bore down on him, Admiral Grant Sharp, now 58, well-decorated and as slender and hard as a torpedo (5 ft. 7 in., 147 Ibs.), described his activities and explained imperturbably: "These things are all thought out ahead of time. It is the culmination of a lot of planning, and the actual execution is fairly simple." True enough. But had he executed his orders with anything less than pinpoint precision, Sharp could well have triggered a disaster...
...rifle, has barely changed in half a century. The M-14 carried by present-day G.I.s is only a slight improvement on the heavy, clumsy M-1 of World War II; the M1, in turn, was little different from the Springfield of World War I. They are all large-bore weapons firing heavy bullets that have rapid spin, which aids their long-range accuracy-a quality that has little value in a rifle in a modern war. Production of the old M-14s was finally stopped last spring. The Defense Department has now ordered 85,000 of the Colt arms...