Word: cool
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...region's worst previous disaster of that kind, the great flood of December 1955, which cost the lives of 74 people and caused millions of dollars in dam age. In both cases moist tropical air, swept by jet streams from Hawaii, collided over the West Coast with cool air, resulting in avalanches of rain...
Since plain American speech suffices only to describe the real world, a new vocabulary must be coined annually at colleges, where all experience has a heightened tone and ordinary superlatives falter. Life calls for adjectives that mean better than best, viler than vile, cooler than cool. The contemptibly stupid, the awesomely brilliant and the inexpressibly attractive all demand labels more vivid than last year's. This winter's college slang is real unreal...
...Squid. No greater praise can be bestowed on a person, place or thing in California than to be bitchin (a shortened, reverse-English form of sons o' bitchin'). Degrees of superiority at Colorado College begin with mean, work up toward brutal and savage. The ancient real cool is still admired at tradition-hobbled Harvard, but the University of Florida has gone on to zero cool, and Colorado College's cool denotes square. How bad is that? reflects admiration; to be unreal is to be impressive...
...himself, flipping a 35-yd. pass to Halfback Ed Fletcher for the winning TD. At the Atlantic City Convention Hall, site of last August's Democratic National Convention, Utah trounced West Virginia 32-6 in the Liberty Bowl-first indoor bowl game ever. The temperature was a pleasantly cool 60°, and Utah Halfback Ron Coleman was red-hot: he gained 154 yds. on 15 carries, including a 53-yd. touchdown burst...
...living organisms. The ice crystals in the clouds, he believes, are so highly reflective that they bounce much of the sun's energy back into space before it gets anywhere near the planet's surface. Thus layers of the Venusian atmosphere may be comparatively cool, perhaps as cool as similar layers on the Earth...