Word: flings
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...principal wage earners travel to the central city to work. And they are not steeped in sin, at least by their own possibly self-serving accounts. Fewer than a fifth favor sex before marriage, and only one in ten believes that the neighbors would consider an occasional extramarital fling "a good thing...
...went on to describe the dictator in images redolent of death, decay and sickness. Stalin's "fingers are fat as grubs," his "cockroach whiskers leer," his laws are like horseshoes to fling "at the head, the eye or the groin." One version of the poem ended with Stalin savoring every execution like a raspberry...
Neil Simon decides to give a married middle-aged restaurateur a fling or three. Amour: kaput. Laughter: rampant...
...weeks aboard ship. The cruise sponsor, the Institute for New Motivations, has decreed that we will be without tobacco, subject to endless lectures and exhortations by psychologists, defenseless against encounter-group leaders and a hypnotist who is all but guaranteed to free us from our habit. A few fling matches and even treasured lighters into the Hudson. Others are caching cigarettes throughout the ship...
Gailbraith does well to emphasize the enormous concentrations of private socioeconomic power which thwart macroeconomic planning and continue inflation. A fling at price-wage controls, however, will not solve the crisis of modern liberalism. The country needs a full-scale commitment by a political party to run a government without the interest groups, break down private administrative conglomerates in the trades and professions, and restore a little more competition. It needs some old-fashioned Progressivism, interest-group trust-busting, and even a dose of Naderism before the next Democratic Administration can effectively plan and execute policy...