Word: churning
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...growing pseudoscience that is more fun than astrology and not as messy as reading chicken entrails. Biorhythm is now a multimillion-dollar-a-year business, serving more than a million believers in the U.S. The word is spread in books, newsletters, a syndicated column and shopping-mall computers that churn out daily charts for 50?. There is a biorhythm service predicting the results of professional football games ($99 a season), and several dozen companies supply computerized charts and such biorhythm hardware as calculator watches ($169) and a Biocom desk computer ($3,000). One company, Kosmos International of Atlanta, supplies charts...
...those days a cult arose among the most disaffected Santalanders--a cult centered around the now-mythic figure of the original Santa Claus. And as The Santa Corporation's plants continued to churn out gifts that would probably never be unwrapped, the Clausists' following grew...
Winthrop quickly returned from "Burn City" to knot the hard fought affair. 'Throp quarterback Brian Towne exhibited the form that made him an AllState New Hampshire gridder when he engineered a 65-yard, churn-it-out touchdown drive. Towne capped the drive with a 12-yard paydirt strike to sophomore standout Rob Inches...
...country, is now in the midst of a perverse political lull. Gone are the flashy pretty-boys like John Lindsay, the debonair playboys like Jimmy Walker, the fiery sidewalk-thumpers like Fiorello LaGuardia and the mediocre but endearing swindlers like Bill O'Dwyer. The city that could once churn out Roosevelts and Wagners now contents itself with failed accountants like Abe Beame, who chased political shadows in the dark of a summer blackout. Mediocrity on an unprecedented scale. Yet even those ciphers seem awesome compared to the choice New Yorkers face at the polls this November...
...churn and clank...