Word: er
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...whiz! Why don't we save ourselves a year of tiresome rhetoric and a lot of money too, and anoint by acclamation another of the Royal Family Kennedy as King-er, President? With Camelot II and its fun and games established in the White House we will see how well charisma can run this country. While standing in awe of the new White House occupants, we will forget our troubles of inflation, unemployment, energy shortage and high medical costs...
Volck' er i za' tion, n. 1: a process of money management whereby interest rates are kept high at a time of deepening recession; 2: a reliance on tight monetary policy in order to protect the value of the dollar abroad and quell inflation at home...
...partly taken over by Soviet pilots in Antonov-12s. There have been reports that some of the pilots supplement their income by smuggling Laotian gold into Viet Nam. Observed a cynical military attaché: "Without the Russians it would be almost impossible to move around the greater Vietnamese Empire, er, excuse me, the Greater Indochina Co-Prosperity Sphere...
...exceeding the 55 m.p.h. speed limit," intones the engine. "Time to fill 'er up," announces the gas tank. It sounds like something out of Looney Tunes, but a talking Ford may well be in the future, not to mention babbling Buicks and loquacious Lincolns. Ford and General Motors are tinkering with computerized voice synthesizers that in several years could replace the dashboard gauges with oral announcements about the condition of the car. Officials of both companies stress that audible autos are still a long way off, but, says a GM spokesman, "We might have something to show...
...Keyte. DP--Boston College 1, Harvard 1. LOB--Boston College 6, Harvard 9. 2B--Pearce, Kelley, Stenhouse, Peccerillo, Santos-Buch, Tilles. HR--Mitchell, Stenhouse (1), Stewart, St. John (1). SB--Follen, Stewart, Gilbody. S--Cullinane. SF--Bingham. IP H R ER BB SO Boston College Meara (L, 1-4) 6 12 6 6 1 3 Tillett .1 0 0 0 0 0 Gallagher 0 2 1 1 0 0 Markell .2 0 0 0 1 0 Murphy 1 1 0 0 1 0 Harvard Alevizos 6.2 4 5 5 4 0 Keyte...