Word: enjoys
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...about income sources and feigned ignorance of the costs of goods, is easily mistaken for "real wealth." Lest you scoff, note the commoners around you who drop names with a straight face, the bar fly who mutters, "I never should have dropped Bauxite," and the man who, professing to enjoy driving his Volkswagen, laughs lightly at a streaking Lear Jet, shaking his head quizzically and mumbling "Nouveau riche." Which is to say, it works, and has been working for quite some time. Convincing people is only a matter of practice and skill...
...last week only eight major-leaguers were batting .300) undoubtedly have had an impact: "Pitching may be 75% of the game," says a San Francisco sportswriter, "but hitting is 75% of the gate." So has the fact that neither league boasts anything resembling a pennant race: the Tigers enjoy a 7½game lead in the American League, and the St. Louis Cardinals top the National League by nine games...
...teen-agers have been gravely affronted by Claire Barnett's prideful claim of "tuning them (television commercials) out for so many years." Why does she think we do our homework in front of the television set? Ensconced in our sanctuary before the tube, we enjoy eight minutes of continuous work, easily giving attention to both TV and texts. The only interruptions we suffer are during the commercials, when we automatically drop the books and "tune in." It's the simplest thing in the world to study while the forces of good and evil meet in climactic clash deciding...
...Lawyers, doctors and judges all police their own," says Philadelphia's Commissioner Frank Rizzo. "Why does it have to be the policeman who is second-guessed? I don't enjoy being quarterbacked by nonprofessionals." Philadelphia, ironically, had a civilian review board for nearly ten years, examining more than 700 complaints and proving to the satisfaction of most outsiders that the concept does work. The police guild, however, succeeded in killing it in court last year...
...play, being unfaithful to its author, is unsatisfying. But many people seemed to enjoy it and it might be entertaining...