Word: generic
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Whatever solutions have been propagated as a new white magic, they relate at best to a non existent, generic abstraction called 'The Child.' but not to real children who grow up in families, with all their traditional restrictions and difficulties but also traditional emotional support...
Nuworld (a generic, not a trade name) is a light, cream-colored cheese with little odor. Tasters describe it as "neither sharp nor mild, and not as bland and flat as American cheese." Cheese specialists agree that it is a distinctive cheese. Toledo buyers have been coming back for more...
...another Secretary-General. Today, India is one of few reasonably neutral countries, and the only one whose nationals neither bloc entirely distrusts. Unless the West will abandon hope for a Secretary who is completely acceptable, and settle on a leaning nentral, Western leadership will appear unreasonable, and the generic foe of Asia...
Layered Crust. Though all Monkeys are definitely uppercrust, the crust seems to come in layers. One alumna explains of the Pont Street houses: "We used to call them by their generic names. One was the Commercial House, where all the big-business daughters went. Then there was the Sporting House, where all the girls' fathers owned race horses. Finally, there was the Indian Colonels House, full of rather pale girls who had been brought up in foreign climes...
...Flight's the Thing. More than 100 falconers (a generic term applied to all those who hunt with birds) from Germany, France, Belgium, Holland and Great Britain had entered the trials. They brought birds of half a dozen varieties, ranging from peregrines, which dive at pheasant and pigeons at speeds as high as 200 m.p.h., to a somewhat elderly eagle, especially trained (for Hermann Goring) as a fox killer...