Word: bywords
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Today's groups sing about such everyday teen-age concerns as war, alienation, racism and narcotics. But to quite a few subteens, especially the more sheltered ones, having a social conscience means worrying about getting home by 10 p.m., grass is just grass, sex is necking, and the byword is don't trust anybody over...
Died. George D. Hay, 72, "the solemn ole judge," as he called himself who created Grand Ole Opry and made it the byword of country-western music; of a heart attack; in Virginia Beach Va. One day in 1927, Hay opened his program of hillbilly music over Nashville's WSM by saying, "For the past hour we have been listening to music taken largely from grand opera, but from now on we will present 'the Grand Ole Opry.' " The name stuck, and so did such stars as Eddy Arnold and Jim Reeves, who helped spread the Nashville...
Died. Arthur O. Dietz, 74, pioneer in auto installment financing and longtime (1939-60) president of Commercial Investment Trust, nation's largest sales-finance company. More than anyone else, Dietz made "Buy Now, Pay Later" a U.S. byword-starting in 1919 when he set up the auto sales division of C.I.T. to finance car sales, a development that put a rich man's luxury into a workingman's budget and brought C.I.T. to a loan volume of $4.6 billion annually by his retirement...
Government Regulation. Statistical projections tend to bear Davis out. Even in the U.S., representative of literate industrial nations where birth control has become a byword, the predicted average annual population-growth rate is averaging 1.3%. Present projections put the U.S. population at 308 million by the year 2000, 374 million by 2015. World population now stands at 3.4 billion. At its present annual growth rate-about 1.8%-it will nearly double by A.D. 2000. By 2050 it will be 15 billion. Even if world population growth were brought into line with the present U.S. rate, it would still double...
...Cool for Carl." While a few extremists dismissed the elections as "tokenism," black militants purposefully helped Stokes and Hatcher by avoiding violence in their cities this past summer. In Cleveland the byword was "Cool it for Carl." The more moderate majority of Negroes, who all too often in the past have been too apathetic, fearful or despairing to use the ballot as an effective weapon, this time showed rare cohesion and voted their interests. If bloc voting wins no seal of approval in civics texts, it has been the device by which every ethnic group in American history has exerted...