Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Congressman without a constituency, for the minute he goes back to his New York City district he risks being clapped in jail under contempt of court sentences, which total 16 months and spring from his failure to pay a libel judgment to a Negro widow. That and his alleged gross misuse of committee funds for his own enjoyment were the reasons for his disbarment. The action was as unexpected as it was unprecedented. Not in the 56-year history of the House's seniority system had a committee chairman been sacked for any sin other than party disloyalty...
...Ruby (né Jacob Rubenstein, alias J. Leon Rubenstein), the seedy Dallas strip-joint owner who yearned to be a mensch, a pillar of the community, but always remained a smalltime schwanz. Commission sleuths assembled a voluminous dossier that told everything-and nothing-about him. They could detail his gross income and net profits for February 1958, but they could not discover his exact birth date and wound up listing eight in the year 1911. They learned that his boyhood nickname was "Sparky," then gave three different reasons for the origin of the name...
Both the Put-On and the Gross-Out are part of the Now Generation's "language bag"-a constantly changing lingo brewed from psychological jargon, show-biz slang and post-Chatterley obscenity. What the 1920s admiringly called a "good-time Charlie" is today Freudianized as a "womb baby," one who cannot kick the infantile desire for instant gratification. Anyone who substitutes perspiration for inspiration is a "wonk"-derived from the British "wonky," meaning out of kilter. The quality an earlier generation labeled cool is "tough," "kicky," "bitchin'," or "groovy." But the most meaningful facet of In-Talk...
...approach to love as many do to drugs. Says Billie Joe Phillips, 23, a Georgia coed who writes a twice-weekly column for the Atlanta Constitution: "For most of the girls in my age group who are married, it would have been better if someone had given them a gross of prophylactics, locked them in a motel room for two weeks, and let them get it out of their systems." Boys and girls together reject the post-Renaissance notion that passion, like a chrysanthemum, blooms best when vigorously pinched off. Says Sybil Burton Christopher, who married 25-year-old Bandleader...
...head for the 200 pros on the tour. A fellow could put himself into a way-up tax bracket merely by winning one tournament: the $250,000 Westchester Classic, whose first prize will be $50,000. Or he could try to win them all-in which case his gross would be $1,000,000. Or he could just plug along, enjoying the exercise. If he finished no better than 15th in every tournament, his income would...