Word: dewing
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Scott: "I like anything with caffeine and sugar; Mountain Dew, Coke, coffee...
...matters. Mulroney pleased the President--and the Pentagon--by committing Canada to pay 40% of the cost of a $1.3 billion program to improve and upgrade the aging Distant Early Warning line, a network of radar stations strung across the Alaskan and Canadian Arctic. Built in the 1950s, the DEW line radars are now virtual museum pieces. In their place, the U.S. and Canada will install 13 manned long-range radar stations and 39 automated short-range radars capable of detecting and tracking a new generation of low-flying Soviet bombers and even newer Soviet cruise missiles. The project, known...
Ralph: Right, dearest. So doubtless we shall soon see Margaret Thatcher flogging Dr Pepper, and Queen Elizabeth in her royal quarters having an argument with Prince Philip over Mountain Dew. Maybe we can get Sandra Day O'Connor to push Gatorade. And how about Mother Teresa for Perrier? She could talk to us about choices for the poor...
...reiteration of once successful jokes and pleasantries is peculiarly Middle Western. The familiar rumble fills the lunchtime air at the Ding Dong, the Hi Ho, the Short Stop, the Tic Toc. "But we have no Dew Drop Inn," laments Lucille McClain, the hostess at the Palmer House. She is pouring another cup for Matt Norcia, who has probably heard 3 million times the rest of the 3:30 coffee crowd's joke about his family connections "in Palermo ho ho." It is a sociability with built-in defenses and proscribed limits. At another table some post-'60s people visiting from...
...sectarian violence. "You confused evasion and artistic tact," the murdered man tells him. "The Protestant who shot me through the head/ I accuse directly, but indirectly, you . . . for the way you whitewashed ugliness and drew/ the lovely blinds of the Purgatorio/ and saccharined my death with morning dew...