Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...reflecting a widespread feeling of resentment and fear among white Americans-showed little inclination to waste time on civil rights bills. A $40 million program to help local communities exterminate rats-a serious problem in the slums-was pigeonholed in the House amid some hilarity (Iowa Republican H. R. Gross wanted to know if there would be a high commissioner for rats). At the same time, an antiriot act that would impose up to five years' imprisonment and a $10,000 fine on anyone who crosses state lines with the object of stirring up trouble zipped through the House...
Just as most of the problems besetting Americans grow out of the conditions of city life, so do most of the things that make the U.S. tick. Fully 90% of the gross national product comes out of the cities; most of America's ideas are thought up in the cities, most of the culture is centered there. Yet in a summer of racial wrath that has already shaken dozens of American cities, the problems of urban life suddenly seem all but insuperable...
...office gross in the U.S. was up 11% in 1966, to $980 million, and will keep climbing this year. The 1967 projection of $1,005,000,000, though, is far below the all-time high of $1,594,000,000, set in 1947 before...
...that "the road show is a gamble over a longer haul for a bigger haul." The haul is longer because hard-ticket attractions involve higher production and promotion costs; and since they generally play only once or twice a day in only one theater, they can't gross as much, even with their higher admission prices, as the standard release that runs five times a day all over town. The haul gets bigger, however, when the hard-ticket show goes into the second-run, or "grind," theaters at regular prices. By that time, it seems like a bargain...
...play and then later banning its opening, criticized the censors' prim hostility to such themes as religion. Frightened by the uproar the article caused among the young Communists, Komsomolskaya Pravda last week ran an editorial condemning not only the two critics but also its own editors for spreading "gross ideological error...