Word: dom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...with almost nothing else on their minds is remote Cape St. Francis in South Africa, where the small, perfectly curling waves give a long, loose ride. From the shores of Ghana to Tahiti's black sand beaches to Hawaii's perilous "Pipeline"-the Mount Everest of surf-dom-chills and spills crowd onto the screen. Some are caught by a waterproofed camera that behaves like a frolicsome seal, nuzzling close enough to eye a surfer's footwork, or leaving the viewer breathless and upended under a cascade of angry white water...
...students play a solo. Now the old cellist closes his mournful eyes in repose, now he nods his head enthusiastically, now lurches forward to demonstrate a point on his cello. He saws the air with an imaginary bow, sings in his rumbling borsch-accented voice: "Dom dom pah pah dom." Scowling, smiling, grimacing, clenching his fists and waving his arms, he peppers his students with encouragement...
Champagne companies think of their product as an ambiance, or way of life, but the way is changing. The wine is still aged, bubbled in the course of a second fermentation in the bottle just as Benedictine Monk Dom Perignon did it in the 17th century. But large champagne companies have now air-conditioned their fermentation rooms, automated their packing lines and replaced wooden vats with 500-gallon, glass-lined tanks. They have also begun to sell their wine in French food shops, where the return is greater than it would be from sales overseas. "We were shy about selling...
...critics to speak their mind, even conceded their honesty and loyalty. For their part, he suggested that they should acknowledge his own "right and duty" to make the "case for realism." That case, he explained, means "simply that there is no rest from the trials of free dom, there is no recalling what the pace of change has done to the map of this big world, there is no reducing our responsibilities while the challenges of progress will not permit us to name the site for our duel or the weapons that...
Bound by the vow of obedience, he is absolutely subject to the commands of his bishop, has no canonical means of protesting a tyrannical order, and sel dom gets more than $150 a month plus food and lodging...