Word: cat
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...World War I and the redistribution of land to the peasants." Some historians will doubtless question Amalrik's contentions that the legendary monk was really as good as all that. Still, in the words of the Boney M. song that is sweeping Russia, Rasputin was obviously "a cat that was really gone...
...hidden away in the files of ETS, they can be reused for approximately three years. "But," notes Cameron, "once you disclose a test, it must be discarded." New York's new law will force makers of standardized tests to offer new examinations throughout the U.S., for once the cat gets out of the bag in New York, test makers must assume it will slink across state lines...
...teen-ager can be. Except for this one quirk: though his background is middle-class and Middle Western-strictly white bread-he has taken to speaking with a heavy Italian accent. From his room comes the sound of Italian opera and language lessons, he has renamed the family cat Fellini, and induced his mother to cook what his father disgustedly calls "ini" food-zucchini, linguini, that sort of thing...
...cat can look at a king, then a kid can look up to a queen, particularly if the kid is Ricky Schroder, 9. Properly togged in midget tuxedo, the star of The Champ met Queen Elizabeth II at the film's London premiere. Whether, when the lights went down, the Queen sobbed like others who have seen Ricky on-screen remained a royal secret...
...Trust, which has been keeping tabs on the fat cat population for marketing purposes for the past decade, reached its conclusions on the basis of a computer model that it developed; its calculations take into account assessments of population growth, earnings trends and money-market performance. According to Vice President Rodney Woods, the difference between today's millionaires and those of the past goes beyond numbers. Says he: "Historically the greatest proportion of millionaires had inherited wealth. In recent years, that proportion has sharply diminished...