Word: dears
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dear Mother," wrote the Harvard student in his empty bluebook, and so began another triumph in the endless battle against the graders and The System...
...example, named Butler. Ah, so. When Marilyn Monroe was a starlet, she had a bit part in All About Eve. At a party in the film she called out, "Oh, waiter!", and George Sanders, at her elbow, said to her, "That isn't a waiter, my dear. That's a butler." "Well," said Marilyn, "I can't yell 'Oh, butler,' can I? Maybe somebody's name is Butler...
Tragic Role. But last week as the nation held its first postindependence general election, there was precious little brotherhood, and Nigeria's model democracy lay in a shambles of violence, poll rigging, boycotting and threats. Any Nigerian who still felt like hailing his own dear native land would have to be quick about it: Nigeria was perilously close to a political breakup. "If Nigeria must disintegrate, then in the name of God, let the operation be short and painless," mourned President Nnamdi ("Zik") Azikiwe in a nationwide radio broadcast, calling on politicians to "summon a round-table conference...
...Orange Bowl at Miami. Striking for two lightning scores (one on a 79-yd. run by Tailback Ernie Koy, the other on a 69-yd. pass from Jim Hudson to George Sauer), the fifth-ranked Longhorns opened up a 21-7 halftime lead. Then they hung on for dear life, intercepting two passes, stopping one Alabama drive at the 1-ft. line, as 'Bama's great Quarterback Joe Namath, playing with an injured knee, frantically filled the air with footballs, completing...
People stepped up their spending for better living (furniture sales were up 11%), for leisure (sporting goods up 5%) and culture (books up 8%). Close under the retailer's eye, dear to his heart and vital to his wallet was the fact that 75% of all department-store purchases were made by women. Indulging whimsy and impulse, they bought tens of millions of pairs of lacy, textured stockings (see MODERN LIVING) to wear in millions of fashionable high boots. They bought family pool tables, maternity stretch pants, gold-plated bathroom fixtures and electric sheet and mattress covers (for those...