Word: elbowings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Washington state-which with approximately the same population collected $42 million in liquor taxes last year. Johnson proposed to earmark the extra funds for the state's inadequate school system and public health services. Also tourists and conventioneers, who prefer not to break a law to bend an elbow, would probably be more numerous as a result...
Here's the way to bend your elbow...
...recent successes of Keynes's theories have given a new stature and luster to the men who practice what Carlyle called '.'the dismal science." Economists have descended in force from their ivory towers and now sit confidently at the elbow of almost every important leader in Government and business, where they are increasingly called upon to forecast, plan and decide. In Washington the ideas of Keynes have been carried into the White House by such activist economists as Gardner Ackley, Arthur Okun, Otto Eckstein (all members of the President's Council of Economic Advisers), Walter Heller (its former chairman), M.I.T...
...tippling, nobody in West Germany out-topes the West Berliners. Low taxes have made liquor so cheap (75? a fifth for gin, $1.25 for local whisky) that the Communist-encircled city not only produces 20% of West Germany's bottled cheer, but also consumes it at the elbow-straining pace of 18 fifths per year per person-double the rate in the rest of the country. Last week the 15-year-old oasis of cheap alcohol was drying up, the victim of a forthcoming New Year's tax increase. Long queues of customers stood through hail, sleet...
...injured wrestlers are two of the best: captain Tom Gilmore and Howie Durfee. Gilmore suffered a knee injury and Durfee a possible elbow fracture in last weekend's Coast Guard Tournament...