Word: fur
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...three-stage manned rocket to the moon (price: $1.98) and a Jupiter-C intermediate-range missile (price $1.98). To attract girls, there will be $1.98 life-size models of Walt Disney's squirrel Perri, a tiny koala bear and a beagle puppy, each with three bags of fur and a sprayer to apply the coat...
That was three years ago. The army enthusiastically grabbed Schneider, appointed him a staff doctor with a major's salary. Top officers glowed about Schneider's "outstanding" abilities and moved him to the job of Sachbearbeiter fur psychologische Fragen (expert on psychological problems) at the Cologne induction center. There, he worked out a guidance handbook to help officers in screening volunteers for the army, boasted that his methods were used in the induction of 80,000 German soldiers. Said a brigadier general: "Schneider's work remains the basic pattern for the techniques of induction officers...
...nothing more than a four-year-old child with fur," burbled an adman pursuing a dog-food account. This kind of talk might offend some old-fashioned parents, but the pitchman knew on which side his yummy was sugared. In ten years of more money and suburban living, U.S. dogs have increased 35% to 26 million; more than 40% of U.S. homes have one or more. U.S. consumers now spend more for dog food than baby food. In 1948 they bought less than i billion Ibs.; last year they spent $350 million for 2.1 billion Ibs. In the next five...
...predict that history will find the abstract expressionists as dated as the fur-lined teacup...
Fifteen-year old Anthony ("writer, artist, translator, hack; gambler, sensualist, fool ... onlooker at his own ruin") spies Christine ("white tennis costume... dove gray fur jacket ... full of fun") in a tea-room, launching 18 years of unrequited love...