Word: far-out
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...acreage they could have bought for $3,500 in 1950. Near Albuquerque, land selling for $4 an acre in 1950 now costs $1,000. Result: the family that wants to build in the suburbs now has to pay 19% of a house's total cost for a far-out piece of land v. 12% on a similar house in 1950 for land much closer to the city...
Talking jumpily and a little like a phonograph record running too fast, he sprays his monologues with far-out terms such as chick, drag, gasser, cool it, bug, dig, weirdo and all that jazz. He also mixes in a never-ending supply of phrases parodying academic jargon ("We must learn to differentiate between generic and relative terms"). Between jokes, he draws on a fat little glossary of verbal rialtos that counterpoint the laughter, indicate his attitude to the material. "Wild, huh?" he will say, standing in the ruins of his most recent target...
...assigned to St. Mark's Church in Van Nuys, Calif, in 1953. Last October he agreed to meet with some members of a fellow minister's church who had found themselves beginning to speak in tongues. First he was surprised to find that they were neither far-out types nor emotionally unbalanced; then he discovered that he had the "gift" himself and that the experience was "enriching...
Hypothetical Wars. Tech Ops has built its reputation with the armed forces and other Government agencies as an outfit to consult for answers to the far-out problems of space travel, radiation, communications, etc. It has contracts for such theoretical tasks as simulating a hydrogen bomb blast in outer space, and figuring out a defense against missiles systems to be used ten or 20 years from now. Tech Ops also set up a computer system in Washington by which hypothetical wars can be fought and generals trained to fight them...
...please the party's liberals, most of them Stevensonians at heart, Kennedy saw to it that the party platform, largely the handiwork of Kennedy Man Chester Bowles, was a far-out liberal manifesto containing a tough civil rights plank that enraged the South. Then, ditching the liberals, Kennedy tried to placate the Southerners and give his ticket a conservative aura by picking Texas' Lyndon Johnson as his running mate...