Word: crapping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Anyway, with the help of these pills, this family has now escaped forever the sorrows of being black in America. As Gertrude, the mother, puts it, "I'll mince my way through Macy's and get thirty day credit. No-000000 one will give me crap...
...lack of enthusiasm for each other's work. "If we didn't like something," Previn explains, "we'd say, 'It fits.' That's very polite, and it has the same result as if one of us said, That's a piece of crap...
...Crap Game. Undaunted, companies go right on turning out new products. Last week Honeywell introduced a $10,600 "kitchen computer" programmed to help the U.S. housewife plan her meals and balance her checkbook. Though Honeywell might sell some to millionaires who have everything, the product could be the precursor of much cheaper small computers for the home; other companies are already working on the idea. Singer recently announced that its Friden office-equipment division will bring out at least one new product a month for the next year. "Developing new products is like a gigantic crap game," says Boone Gross...
...slink out of the supervisor's office, a jock looms over the horizon. "Hey, what is this?" he says. "There's a goddam bunk bed in my goddam room. Are they trying to give us a goddam floater? We ain't gonna take this crap. We'll make him so miserable he'll be begging to move out within a week...
...television industry has a sympathetic reaction verging on panic. As early as last may, Michael Dann, CBS senior vice president for programming, warned a national meeting of his network's station managers that the political atmosphere discouraged innovation and that the 1969-70 series would be "the same crap as last...