Word: cleaning
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Monk was arrested along with Bud Powell when a packet of heroin was found in their possession. Monk had always been "clean," but he refused to let Powell take the rap alone. "Every day I would plead with him," Nellie says. " 'Thelonious, get yourself out of this trouble. You didn't do anything.' But he'd just say, 'Nellie, I have to walk the streets when I get out. I can't talk.'" Monk held his silence and was given 60 days in jail...
...automatic head scratcher-for itself. It has just enjoyed three fat years, and now, with delight bordering on disbelief, is facing a fourth. Last week, closing their books on 1963 sales and pulling together first reports for 1964, appliance manufacturers reported that sales of machines that cool, clean, cook and entertain rose 7% last year, to $9 billion, and last month ran 10% ahead of the previous January. Demand seems to be increasing faster than ever...
...cropped corners on the screen and make the TV cabinet shallower. Portable color TVs are due in about three years. Looking toward the late 1960s or the 1970s, manufacturers are also working on practically priced home microwave ranges that bake a potato in five minutes, ultrasonic washers that clean without suds or water, and compact thermoelectric appliances that heat, cool and freeze without the aid of moving parts...
...figures that hold the headlines of the British penny-dreadful press. He is a poor man's pill-pusher, a sallow runt with "codfish eyes" and a large compensatory mustache, which doesn't impress his wife. "You're not a man!" she hoots at him. "Go clean the lodger's boots!" And while her husband cleans the lodger's boots, she nibbles the lodger's ear. After several years of playing the cuckold, creepy little Crippen dares at last to play the man-with a pretty young typist (Samantha Eggar...
...settler" (knock him out), epithets like "nipcheese" (a parsimonious person), verbs like "fadge" (to make sense). Male characters do not dress; they are accoutered, like Achilles, in the armor prescribed by Beau Brummel, who, as every Heyer reader knows, not only taught Englishmen to wash, wear clean linen and conservatively cut clothes, but invented a boot polish with a special magic ingredient-vintage champagne. Its plot is frothy and prolix. Charles Fancot, the second son of now-defunct Lord Denville, comes home to London, after helping his uncle preside at the Congress of Vienna, to find that stormy Twin Brother...