Word: hand
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Before we talk to our opponents, let's talk to our friends. Let's begin that right away. A strong, independent Europe within the Atlantic alliance could make for a healthier Atlantic community, at the same time providing a strong negotiating hand with the Soviet Union...
...midwinter wastes of the Arctic, a man must battle without cease just to keep alive. Out on the tundras of Alaska, flesh exposed to such intense cold may freeze within one minute, and mistakes are paid for by the loss of a hand or a foot. At 60 below, steel will break more easily and rubber is as brittle as glass. Standard lubricating oils solidify into a buttery mess, and gasoline must be liberally dosed with alcohol to keep motors running. Unless engines are kept .turning over, they risk a "cold soaking" that seizes every moving part in icy immobility...
...mistaken. Many cases indicate that while a man's potency can be dramatically stimulated for a few months by an affair with a younger woman, he will usually revert to the same pattern he had maintained with his coeval wife. According to Sociologist Clark Vincent, on the other hand, there is more likelihood of serious differences in sexual appetite among coevals than among May-December couples. Vincent's theory, however, has yet to be verified...
...education. Bing Crosby, who was 53 in 1957 when he married Kathy Crosby, then 23, encouraged his wife's careers as an actress and a nurse. Justice Douglas has been quietly protective in introducing his young Oregon-born wife to Washington's intimidating society. On the other hand, a young wife should not be unduly nervous about reminding her husband of their age difference-elaborately avoiding another set of tennis or politely yawning at 11 p.m. Most older men will only react by trying doubly hard to prove how young they are, sweating it out on the tennis...
...humor is as contemporary as the minute hand on a watch. For example, the hero is about to enter college. His father asks him what he intends to major in. The boy replies, "Hotel management," since he dreams of running his own hotel. The father says that he too had had a dream, that of owning a liquor store, but it had never come true. He cautions the boy that he must be realistic and have something solid to fall back on. Replies the boy: "I'm minoring in cinema...