Word: fact
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fact, for many Americans, today's high rates have become a bonanza. The reason: since June, banks have been offering money market certificates. These are six-month time deposits that pay interest equal to-or when sold by a savings and loan, a quarter-point better than -what the Government has to offer to sell its six-month Treasury bills. And while regular bank certificates of deposit normally cannot be had for under $100,000, MMCs sell for as little as $10,000; many people have switched their savings to them...
...contended that it should not be tried ex post facto on a 1977 law for a car built in 1973 involving an accident in 1978. But the judge bought the prosecutor's argument that the charge was not based on the Pinto design fault, but rather on the fact that Ford had permitted the car "to remain on Indiana highways, knowing Full well its defects." Manufacturers, said the prosecutor, should be "on notice that if they have a defective product, and know about it, they should do something about it." A jury will decide the issue when...
...strongest tastes were negative," writes Waugh of Pinfold. "He abhorred plastics, Picasso, sunbathing and jazz-everything in fact that had happened in his own lifetime. The tiny kindling of charity which came to him through his religion sufficed only to temper his disgust and change it to boredom. There was a phrase in the thirties: It is later than you think,' which was designed to cause un easiness. It was never later than Mr. Pin fold thought...
...finds a way to spoof his native country and contrast it to Maine. The old lady lives sur rounded by tacky reproductions of Dutch scenes and execrable examples of porcelain. Her brother briefly thinks that she may have killed her husband but concludes that he is overinfluenced by the fact that her meals constitute the foulest kind of home cooking...
...over generations altered into sluggorne, slughorn, slogurn and other variants, including slogen. From that came the modern word that embraces those catch phrases, mottoes, aphorisms and partisan whoops that are continually coined and used by every segment of society, from politicians to Boy Scouts to terrorists. Slogans are, in fact, as common as chitchat...