Word: eyeful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...inexpensive. You laugh as you read this, I know, you say to yourself that of course this is impossible. The Bargain? The incarnation of an ideal? The one priceless but cheap item that all others have missed? This must be a joke. But no. The look in Namo's eye when we set out was one of fierce determination, and as he clutched his plastic money in his sweaty palm, he drooled ever so slightly...
...hotly debated new state law allowing such places to serve drinks for the first time in 70 years. Hank Stoppelbein, 23, a part-time waiter who fired down the first shot (a $1.50 Bloody Mary) at Benedictine's Restaurant at 8:04 a.m., pronounced it not just an eye opener but "history, right there along with George Washington crossing the Delaware." Said the one-word banner headline on the Charlotte News front page: CHEERS...
Human rights advocates in the Administration blamed "militarists" and "cold warriors" for turning a blind eye to the Shah's repressive policies. The corridors of the Pentagon reverberated with bitter denunciations of the "softheaded liberals" who had blinded President Carter to what self-avowed hardheads call "the realities of power." But most of the grumbling was aimed at the CIA. White House staffers and congressional aides accused the agency of cranking out sanguine "estimates" of the situation in Iran. Administration sources revealed that Carter had circulated a handwritten memo to his top foreign policy advisers complaining about the poor...
...again features "the Cat in the Hat," a feline who speaks in the universal language of childhood, whimsy: "You'll learn about Jake the Pillow Snake, and all about Foo-Foo the Snoo." Here, as in more than 30 previous books, the doctor proves to be an eye and ear specialist. His deceptively simple jingle is designed to be heard and inspected repeatedly until the rhythms awaken children to the delights of rhyme and the rewards of literacy...
...skies may be friendly, and the fares lower, but no jet can compete with the fascination of rolling stock on gleaming rails. With this in mind. Donald Crews has used an artist's airbrush and a designer's eye to link up his unique Freight Train (Greenwillow/Morrow; $6.95). The text is as unadorned as a coal car, but the pictures have a purity and force that Amtrak would do well to emulate...