Word: grossness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Despite the rising affluence of Americans, expenditures on the performing arts grew only proportionately to the gross national product from 1932 to 1963; and between 1961 and 1963, even that rate diminished. In 1963 Americans spent only $3.23 per capita on admissions to the theater, opera, concert and dance...
...acts as if it were the richest power in Europe-and constantly tries to use its economic leverage to win its own way in international affairs. Its industrial output jumped by more than 7% in the year that ended last June, and both this year and next year its gross national product is expected to increase 5.5%, highest real growth rate in the Common Market. Yet under the surface glitter, France has a backward, underdeveloped economy-a fact that the De Gaulle government has recently owned up to and started to do something about...
...London particular," glides up to a luckless trollop, and with a knife at least as big as the minute hand on Big Ben opens the poor girl from 'ere to 'ere. At such moments Hill hoses the screen with such a preposterous torrent of catchup that gross horror becomes Grand Guignol, and even the squeamish should concede that his sense of humor is simply ripping...
...stepped in as Prime Minister. In power, he improved relations with long-hated Britain, broke precedent by making a friendly call on Ulster's Prime Minister Terence O'Neill, and launched the country on a vast and varied industrialization and trade-expansion program aimed at boosting the gross national product...
...highest-priced theater in Manhattan, is booming like a basso profundo. Since opening its new house in September, the Met has been 100% sold out and has turned away thousands of ticket seekers, who are 100% furious. But the smell of success is not sweet. Last week, pleading "a gross miscalculation" in budgeting, the Met announced that it must hike ticket prices by roughly 20%, or an increase from $13 to $15.50 for the top-priced seats. The reason, explained the Met's board of directors, is that, like dreamy-eyed newlyweds, they had underestimated the cost of housing...