Word: flannel
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...DAYS when big business was so much fun. All those pleasant corporate execs used to caper around the office in their pleasantly grey flannel suits, every now and then molesting the pleasantly available secretaries, and all the while running the engines of the American economy at full throttle. Adam Smith would no doubt have enjoyed it, and probably would have hypothesized some benevolent invisible hand to direct all that frisky lechery and banality toward a common good. At the very least, he would have appreciated the healthy, self-enforced chivalry of the times: martinis at dawn, and to the victor...
...hours. Hatch's people look around at each other. Yeah, Frank did look good tonight. They wonder if it will work. For the first time all fall their candidate got tough with Ed King, like he too realized the clock was running out. Mastrangelo, dressed in a gray flannel suit vest and pants, with little bulges of fat straining the buttons, says that Frank has been aggressive, and tonight's debate looked particularly good because for once they had all spent some time working on his speeches. As we're talking, Mastrangelo bites down on the wet cigar he holds...
...Answer: It won't fit in their flannel shirt pocket...
...about Dartmouth's new "multi-flannel" offense this year? The starting eleven come out in flannel shirts and hats with those Floyd R. Turbo earflaps. The other team thinks it's the ground crew working on the field, and returns to the locker room. Dartmouth then wins the game by forfeit...
OHIO. Silver-haired and flannel-tongued Republican James Rhodes, 69, who has already served an unprecedented twelve years as Ohio's Governor, has gained considerable favor with voters by driving his own car to work, jawboning his way through all of Ohio's 88 counties and living in his own home (he says he would like to sell the Governor's mansion...