Word: headier
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Caravans & Color TV. Boatmen are happily convinced that they are just beginning to tap the potential market. Banks like to lend money for new boats (the repossession rate is practically nil) and wives who once turned querulous at their husbands' seasonal desertion plead for bigger, headier boats. Boat clubs blossom in landlocked regions. In Arizona, where the boating public numbered only about 3,000 five years ago, there are now more than 30,000-and many of them fan out from Phoenix as far as 280 miles to find water. There was scarcely a man-sized boat in Kansas...
...survives the other six will follow his trail, and if he fails the other six will be there to carry on. And beyond, with success, lie higher and headier space flights, perhaps even to the moon...
...with what the script called "a fine, quiet steadiness," was called upon to sigh courageously: "I am born again." Though Iris was the kind of frothy pink lady that TV shakes up every day, Margaret gave it the sort of warm, simple-blonde-and-blue-eyed glow that the headier highballs of TV drama often lack...
...something longer, headier, woozier-such as the tale of a small Dylan accompanying a busload of revelers on a daylong ride from one pub to another, till "dusk came down warm and gentle on thirty wild, wet, pickled, splashing men without a care in the world at the end of the world in the West of Wales"-that Williams gathers more momentum and garners a real harvest of laughs...
Heady Promise. While Ludwig Erhard dreamed of his home-grown Sherman Act, other Europeans had been dreaming even headier dreams. Spurred on by France's Jean Monnet and Belgium's Paul-Henri Spaak, six Western European nations (France, West Germany, Italy and the Benelux countries) early this year finished drawing up treaties to establish both a European Common Market and a European Atomic Energy Community (TIME, March 4). The first of these promised to create within 15 years a single West European market, comparable in size to the continent-wide U.S. market, with free trade within...