Word: collars
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...weekend yet and 9 a.m. It rained on the bed last night. No covers on my feet. Slippers, slippers. Watch the razor, beards don't grow on trees, you know. Cold tile and a starched shirt. 15 collar, 151/2 neck. Crest, Breakfast of Champions. Lock the door. And the New York Times again. Headlines, skinny columns. Oh, I made the news today...
...white reparations have been regular RELIGION topics. An entirely new section-ENVIRONMENT-was organized to cope with the tide of concern over mindless ravaging of our natural resources. TIME'S ESSAY section has examined the clamor over chemical warfare as well as the frustration among the blue-collar workers in "Forgotten America." Occasionally, TIME has registered its own protest-as in "The Danger of Playing at Revolution...
...auspicious moment for a party that not too long ago seemed irretrievably locked into the role of the opposition, unable to break its blue-collar mold and incapable of attracting much more than one-third of the voters. Throughout the country there was a deep and exciting awareness that a watershed had been reached. After 20 years of uninterrupted rule, Chancellor Kurt Kiesinger's Christian Democrats prepared to take their places on the opposition benches. Said the conservative Bayern Kurier: "The political generation of postwar times finally belongs to the past...
...Pittsburgh's elite Duquesne Club, industrialists grumble about slipping demand and sales. Automakers have scheduled 7.5% fewer car assemblies for the final quarter of this year than during the same period a year ago, and Chrysler is about to lay off some of its 40,000 white-collar workers to reduce costs. A. W. ("Tom") Clausen, vice chairman of the Bank of America, predicted last week that banks will cut their prime rate from the present record 81% early next year, or perhaps even sooner. Walter Heller, the former White House chief economist, maintains that "inflation has probably...
...Jesus Christ," I think to myself. I look at the guy and notice he's wearing a white shirt with a starched collar...