Word: grips
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...picture was much the same in Greece, where one-third of the population was officially estimated to be bedridden; the blight spread to Yugoslavia and Switzerland, Austria and West Germany, Poland and Czechoslovakia. The Germans' word of the week was Grip-pewelle (flu wave), and Chancellor Willy Brandt went to Tunisia to recuperate from his bout. The Viennese, devoted to hot lemon drinks as a palliative, bid up the price of lemons from their midwinter norm of seven schillings (28?) for ten lemons, to 20 schillings...
Almost seventy years later, the Ivy grip remains unbroken. This year Eliot House tied the University of California at Berkeley in Scholarships and beat the University of Cincinnati...
...American dream that they were living was no longer the dream as advertised. They feared that they were beginning to lose their grip on the country. Others seemed to be taking over ?the liberals, the radicals, the defiant young, a communications industry that they often believed was lying to them. The Saturday Evening Post folded, but the older world of Norman Rockwell icons was long gone anyway. No one celebrated them; intellectuals dismissed their lore as banality. Pornography, dissent and drugs seemed to wash over them in waves, bearing some of their children away...