Word: grosse
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...take care of this monarch as well, especially since her protectors last week seemed astonish ingly inept at doing so. In an incident that London's Daily Express scathingly called "the most gross and scandalous lapse of security in her 30-year reign," Queen Elizabeth II was abruptly awakened by an intruder early one morning and forced to spend an eerie ten minutes conversing with him. The visitor had evaded guardsmen, bobbies, servants, surveillance cameras and electronic devices to reach the royal bedroom, one flight up from the palace grounds...
...that the previous jolts have cost the U.S. and its major trading partners a total of $1.2 trillion in lost eco nomic growth between 1974 and 1981. In addition, the increased prices have dou bled unemployment rates and nearly tri pled the pace of inflation. The shares of their gross national products that Western economies spend on energy have also tri pled. Writes Yergin: "Thus, an oil price rise of any given magnitude will now have a greater effect on the consuming nations than the first or second shock...
...memorable heated interview between CBS News Correspondent Mike Wallace and retired U.S. Army General William Westmoreland, had as a central thesis the charge that in 1967 Westmoreland led a top-level military conspiracy to sustain public support for the war in Viet Nam by giving the White House gross underestimates of the size of enemy forces. Three days after the show was aired, General Westmoreland angrily denied the allegations. Other disavowals followed, including claims by senior advisers to President Lyndon Johnson that they had been well aware of debate among military and intelligence officers about the strength of the enemy...
DIED. Courtlandt S. Gross, 77, president, then chairman of Lockheed Aircraft Corp. from 1956 to 1967, who turned the struggling company into a leviathan; of gunshot wounds during a break-in by intruders who also shot his wife and a live-in housekeeper; at their mansion in Villanova, Pa. Originally a salesman, Gross entered Lockheed in 1932 when his older brother Robert and partners bought control of a company then in receivership. Under Gross, Lockheed diversified, building satellites, Poseidon missiles and ships in addition to supersonic airplanes. During one astounding four-year burst in the early 1960s, he nearly doubled...
...insidious movement to anesthetize the American moviegoer's mind, which began with Animal House, picked up converts with the Cheech and Chong farces and came close to sweeping the country with Porky 's, may now triumph with Young Doctors in Love. The picture is just gross and artless (and canny) enough in its flat, untextured sitcom way to attract millions of eleven-year-olds who have left their brains in their classrooms. Its humor is based on brand-name recognition: if you're aware of the particular movie, video game or soap being burlesqued, you will respond...