Word: coughings
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...youths in cowboy boots. The neat rows separating the plywood tents were given names like "Soul Street" and "Atlanta Street" while the shelters themselves bore inscriptions like "Soul House No. 1½," "We Shall Overcome," and "Girls Wanted, Experience Unnecessary." Children lined up for free inoculations against measles, whooping cough, diphtheria and lockjaw, and two vans for dentistry served kids and adults, many of whom had never before seen a dentist. Evenings, the entertainment was the finest in town-Jazz Trumpeter Dizzy Gillespie, soul singers and freedom singers, ripsnorting revivalist sermons. Everything was free, even a seven-man outdoor barber...
...horizontally at Andover because all four classes share dormitories with only other members of their class. There is a minimum of socializing between different age groups. As a result, each class comes up with strange new drugs of their own. For the sophomores it is Romilar. Romilar is a cough syrup, $1.50 without prescription. Drink a whole bottle down to get high. One student said, "It doesn't make you throw up like Lavoris (another high). It stiffens you up so you can't move...
...Irwin Jr. was the N.C.A.A. champion; Britain's Clive Clark was a former member of his nation's Walker Cup team. But laurels alone were not the price of admission. Each student had to be personally recommended by his own local or national P.G.A.; he had to cough up $250 for tuition and $125 for a year's P.G.A. dues, and he had to show a bank balance (or a sponsor's pledge) of $7,500-enough to cover his expenses for six months on the pro tour...
...morning the white storekeepers would drive in from suburban Virginia and Maryland and cough on the tear gas and paw through the rubble looking for unbroken liquor bottles and missed jewelry. Most of them were uninsured and ruined. Few would return to the inner city, where their ancestors had made their fortunes in the small cut-rate credit furniture stores of 7th Street...
More and more, that phrase has come to mean ads with a sense of entertainment and humor. One of Benton & Bowles's most successful TV ads, for example, features the bull-necked Korean who played the karate expert Odd Job in Goldfinger. Seized with a coughing fit, he nearly chops down his house with involuntary hand swipes before a swig of Vick's Formula 44 cough medicine calms him down. Even Ted Bates & Co., perennial champion of the hard sell, is going soft. It has dropped the sledgehammer animations it long used to illustrate (and often give) headache...