Word: express
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...youth registrations have been heavily Democratic, according to Gilbert (56.4% to 17.1% Republican), but with a significant percentage (25.2%) of students listing themselves as independent. An intriguing Gilbert discovery is that only a fourth of the youth express "very high interest" in the election. Another 38.9% indicate they are "moderately" interested, while 36% have either a "soso" or "not very" level of interest...
...troops engaged in a giant maneuver called Shield '72, which presupposed a lunge from the West and a Communist counterattack. Mean while, NATO assembled 64,000 men, 300 warships and 700 aircraft off the coast of Europe, from Portugal to Norway, for its own games, dubbed Strong Express. Their purpose was to demonstrate NATO's efficiency in coming to the aid of an ally invaded by Communist troops...
...which is often borrowed from mathematical formulas by social scientists, is equally hallucinogenic. It stands for the word need. Thus Harvard Psychologist David McClelland, for one, writes n Ach when he wants only to convey a person's need to achieve great things, or n Aff to express the urge to affiliate with or belong to a group. Some of his colleagues, Andreski writes, must in turn be moved by n Bam, the need to bamboozle...
...presume that attitude the filmmakers wanted to express was 'this is the way the system works, and if we want to change it from within, we'll have to temper our idealism.' That's total bullshit. All the film is saying is this is the atmosphere, these are the pressures...
...tourist trade. Brightly colored, durable, it will serve to cover a grand piano or enliven a teen-ager's den. Only in recent years has it become apparent that the Navajos are a tribe of unusual vitality, and that the blankets they made during the 19th century express a remarkable artistic spirit...