Word: dente
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...People feel weak and defeated. We need a hero so strong and so intelligent that nothing can stop him." The job of creating this giant was assigned to an unathletic and sketchily educated young writer named Lester Dent. Trained as a telegrapher, Dent was innocent of grammar ("of no value to we") and guilty of heinous cliches ("The warriors were certainly a chagrined lot"), but he could put out the prose at a Remington-wrecking rate. Under the pen name Kenneth Robeson, he knocked off a 60,000-word Doc Savage novel almost every month for nearly 15 years...
...other characters in Dent's stories are understandably something of a letdown. The Fabulous Five, Doc's "companions in adventure and excitement," are said to be "the five greatest brains ever assembled in one group," but they talk ("Holy Cow! That's plumb ding-y!") like the Beaver Patrol on an overnight hike. Dent's villains are far zingier. They have names like Ull, Ark, Var, Zoro, Rama Tura, "The Sinister Count Ramadanoff" and "The Horrible Humpback"-whose hump, by the way, is packed with nefarious electronic gear. One of his nastiest creations is an Eskimo...
...subdued George Wallace. As signs in the large crowds proclaimed that 'BAMA LOVES NIXON and NIXON SELLS GOOD USED CARS, Wallace uncharacteristically told reporters: "Let's don't talk politics. The people of Alabama have a high regard for the presidency." Said pleased Presidential Aide Harry Dent: "Oh boy, that Southern strategy really worked this week. A lot of people misjudge the reservoir of strength for Richard Nixon in the South...
...mountain, the climbers tackled the hazardous job of smashing and burning junk and backpacking as much as they could down the trail. In all, they took 380 pounds of litter to a camp at the 7,400-ft. level. Despite their good intentions, the impromptu collection barely made a dent in what is probably the earth's highest, unlikeliest garbage dump...
...incidentally, far above the Orshanky poverty line used by the Social Security Administration). Most discouraging of all, only 22 per cent of the families in Massachusetts now eligible for AFDC have discovered the program. That proportion will rise dramatically as welfare levels increase. Even full employment will make little dent on the rolls. Of the 50,000 adults, mostly female on AFDC, only 10,000 might be suitable for employment. When the system finally collapses under its own weight, one must hope that the federal government will be forced to intervene...