Word: cha
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...recent years that the old tools to measure its size and health are no longer adequate. The biggest sector of the economy is no longer the production of such tangibles as appliances, cars, houses; it is the performance of services, ranging from medical checkups to European trips and cha-cha lessons. In this new economy, there are 33 million employed in performing services compared to only 27 million working at producing things. In the last quarter, consumer spending for goods dropped $2.5 billion, but spending for services continued to rise by another $2 billion...
Unlike many people in his profession, George Abbott does not drink or smoke or talk about himself. He enjoys taking pretty girls out dancing and is especially expert at the cha-cha. Once widowed and once divorced, he has one talented daughter, Judith, and several grandchildren. He drives a new Cadillac and plays good golf for a beginner--he took it up this spring, leaving his tennis cronies looking for a fourth...
Pertinent Percussion Cha Cha's (Command). This time, Bandleader Light provides a strong, not to say overpowering beat for the stereo fan who likes to exercise while listening...
...hours a day, between Cuban cha cha chas and American pop tunes, the station lambastes the U.S. It also courts Fidel Castro, an ally in mutual hatred of the U.S. Radio Caribe shrugs off last year's Cuba-based Dominican invasion as "the result of errors in the first steps of a euphoric and warlike youth" and says: "We wish Fidel happiness." A few days later the charge went: "Raul Castro is right. The OAS serves for nothing." Venezuela's President Romulo Betancourt is described as "an employee of the State Department...
...Much Cha-Cha-Cha." Early this month, panting a little but seemingly insouciant as ever, Danton Walker dictated a column from his hospital bed in Hyannis, Mass. It was characteristically name-dropping even when the subject was himself. "Too much cha-cha-cha can be dangerous," he wrote, "especially if you try it the Danton Walker way. It resulted in a mild coronary for me brought on by cha-cha-cha lessons which began in West Berlin, starting with a delightful Italian movie doll named Giorgia Moll, continued in Rio de Janeiro with Mrs. Juscelino Kubitschek, First Lady of Brazil...