Word: chromed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...city grated thru chrome-plate...
City Hall is different. It is modest. You can afford to be, when you have a history like Boston's. Names like Lowell, Cabot, Lodge, Peabody, Adams or Quincy have a certain presence which does not have to be heightened by skyscrapers or polished with chrome...
...first 26 hours, a steady parade of vandals had removed the battery, radiator, air cleaner, radio antenna, windshield wipers, right-hand-side chrome strip, hubcaps, a set of jumper cables, a gas can, a can of car wax, and the left rear tire (the other tires were too worn to be interesting). Nine hours later, random destruction began when two laughing teen-agers tore off the rearview mirror and began throwing it at the headlights and front windshield...
...wave of a new pan-Europeanism. "The obsession of the new mass tourism is not to see a new country but to find two commodities: the sun and the sea." In Sampson's opinion, even the automobile, Europe's latest symbol of liberation and status, provides a chrome-trimmed distraction from serious subjects, including the concept of unity...
Auto-company executives, like election candidates, have never been known to poor-mouth their prospects. So when automen early this year talked down economic uncertainties and talked up a robust 9,000,000-car sales year, it seemed like just more chrome from Detroit's brass. Not any more, though. The way auto sales are going, the industry may find itself for once guilty of understatement...