Word: gal
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...started his own publishing house (Wilfred Funk, Inc.). He tried his hand at light verse, drew up a list of the ten most beautiful words in the English language (dawn, hush, lullaby, murmuring, tranquil, mist, luminous, chimes, golden, melody) and the ten most overworked (okay, terrific, lousy, definitely, racket, gal, honey, swell, contact, impact'). He even compiled a canine dictionary of 204 words that every well-bred dog should understand, ranging from a basic siccum to slippers and ice cream...
Worst hit was Seattle, where seven people died in the quake's only fatalities, four from heart attacks. One man was killed by flying bricks and mortar; two others died after parts of a shattered 50,000-gal. water tank fell on them. Elsewhere in the state, chimneys toppled, power lines snapped, roads buckled and bridges swayed. At the capitol in Olympia, the 37-year-old dome cracked, pillars shifted, and fragments of glass skylights crashed down on the legislators' empty chairs...
Pioneering Gal. That attitude persists, but the barriers are crumbling. It was, after all, a woman federal judge, Sarah T. Hughes of Dallas, who swore in President Johnson 99 minutes after President Kennedy's death. "The sooner we get to consider women as individuals rather than as women, the better it will be," says Judge Hughes. "All women are not alike, just as all men are not alike...
ANOTHER SIDE OF BOB DYLAN (Columbia). Turning aside from social injustices, Dylan devotes himself largely to personal matters-disjointed dreams like Motorpsycho Nitemare and unsentimental love. "Gypsy gal, you've got me swallowed," he confesses in Spanish Harlem Incident. "Your cracked country lips I still wish to kiss," he says To Ramona. His songs (which he defines as "anything I can sing") are, as usual, loosely constructed, with occasional memorable melodic phrases and mostly forgettable verse that runs stale and sodden for miles and then suddenly takes one by surprise. As for his nasal voice and wheezing harmonica...
Humble Oil is pushing its gasoline sales with pictures of a huge tiger and the advice: "Put a tiger in your tank." U.S. Rubber is using a tiger to stress the clawlike grip of its tires. Revlon is backstopping its pitch for an antidandruff preparation with a feline-voiced gal, lounging on a stuffed tiger, who makes every man sit through the commercial by crooning: "I want a word with all you tigers-you men know which ones you are." Kellogg's tigers are puffing vim into breakfast food on the fronts of cereal boxes. Williamson-Dickie Manufacturing...