Word: fads
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...owners will "rock" pheasants and chukars, tucking their heads under their wings and spinning them around until they are too dizzy to fly properly; some birds are so groggy that hunters have to kick them into the air. At the Fin and Feather Club outside Kansas City, the newest fad is a "tower shoot"; hunters form a circle around a 30-ft. tower and pheasants are released, one at a time, from the tower. Some of the birds are banded in different colors, and the hunters contribute to a Calcutta-type pool. Everybody blasts away; a gold band wins...
Greatest Since Kissing. The beep line comes and goes among teen-agers all over the U.S.-a kind of electronic equivalent of the old-fashioned tree trunk on which people used to hang messages. It is partly just fad and fun, partly a way of getting dates...
...follows the current fad among Italian films of merciless misogyny. The first half is wildly funny, the second half movingly pathetic. These two virtues add up to a fault: after farce, pathos makes a bitter chaser...
...Coping of Kops. Along the line the reader gets a rare insider's view of the outsiders. There is a prevalence of "pornmerchants" (peddlers of pornographic literature). "Kinks" are those with highly specialized sexual aberrations. The fad for Zen among U.S. beatniks is a London import (1950). Drugs in London are mostly run by what in New York are called "scratch bums," i.e.. bums so crawling with lice that they are immune from police search. Dimly in Kops's background, public events take place: the Jews of the East End defeat Mosley's blackshirts in pitched...
...fairly common fad among ballplayers, who claim that it gives them a better grip on the bat. Other glove-wearers: New York's Roger Maris, Baltimore's Jackie Brandt, Boston's Frank Malzone...