Word: flivver
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Enter the villain (Keenan Wynn), a mustached miscreant named Alonzo Hawk who proposes a dastardly scheme to get rich quick: buy stock in glass companies, and then-heh-heh-heh-break every window in the world! But the professor proudly refuses, and jumps in his flivver. He doesn't want to miss The Big Game-and neither will any moviegoer who needs a good, old-fashioned locomotive laugh. It's a flubbergasser...
...resurgence was even sweeter because it was so long overdue. When Daddy drove a flivver and raccoon coats were all the rage, West Coast football took a rumble seat to none. But after World War II, the once proud West suffered painful indignities. Only three times in 15 years did a Western team win in the Rose Bowl; of 114 games with the Big Ten, the West won only 38, But last week all that was changed, and the best in the West were a match for any in the U.S. The best...
...bill offers a real and vital departure for U.S. foreign economic policy. Existing reciprocal trade laws, although considered revolutionary when first passed during Franklin Roosevelt's Administration, have long been as obsolete as the flivver. Economic policy is an obvious and integral part of foreign policy-for which the U.S. Constitution assigned the President responsibility. Yet the reciprocal trade laws allowed the President almost no flexibility. They were studded with "peril point" limitations, dictated by protectionists, that often negated their basic purpose...
...height it was dropped from, goes even higher on the second bounce, hits the ceiling on the third, and on the 50th would probably sail to the moon. The professor installs a crude flubberator in a model T Ford, impetuously bounces off into the blue: with flubber the flivver can actually...