Word: hiccuped
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Florence, city employees turned off the gas; in Genoa, gardeners walked away from their flowers; throughout Italy, telephone operators engaged in a "hiccup strike" - disregarding calls or answering them irregularly. Even the Coca-Cola bottling plant in Rome closed down, as workers popped their caps for more money. Within the past month, the Bank of Italy, the Italian Atomic Energy Commission, Rome's 36 nightclubs and the rubber industry have been struck, and last week officials of the Treasury and Finance Ministry walked out - thus giving Italian taxpayers a 48-hour breather on their income...
...Historic Hiccup. Half a century ago, doctors thought that prematures just died, and there was nothing they could do to prevent it. Now all major U.S. hospitals have special incubator units for them, and the death rate has been drastically reduced. But it is still 17.3%, or 20 times as high as that for normal babies. If that death rate is to be reduced still further, medical scientists must have new, fundamental facts...
...they are considered freaks, probably carried long distances by rivers or glaciers. The Murfreesboro diggings-at best a poor relation of the famous diamond "pipes"' of South Africa-are genuine. Ages ago, a volcano must have erupted in what is now Arkansas. Presumably that geologic hiccup eventually resulted in an impressive cone, but hundreds of millions of years of erosion wore it down. The only remnants were traces of the lava that once filled the volcano's vent. The lava was kimberlite, named after Kimberley, South Africa, and as it disintegrated, it released a few diamonds...
...HOUSE, by William Brinkley (373 pp.; Random House; $5.95). There was nothing wrong with Author (Don't Go Near the Water) Brinkley's idea, which was to lampoon a big picture magazine as the sort of hiccup farm where employees run through a four-minute morning, ease up with a five-martini lunch, and frolic back to the office just in time to line up an overnight date with a girl reporter. It was the author's qualifications that did him in. Before giving up journalism for "full-time writing" (as the book-jacket blurb rather cattily...