Word: hipness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...there is in it. He comes on looking like something from a dentifrice advertisement and breezes through the part with unflagging brio, brilliance and briskness. As Kate, Ruby Dee enters appropriately in a flaming red gown and black hat with red panache, and proceeds to convey something of a hip-swinging tigress...
...bows to the Library of Congress, at the same time establishing a $1,225,000 Whittall Foundation to sponsor concerts (admission price: 25?) at which they would be played, and in later years a $644,000 Whittall Poetry and Literature Fund for readings and lectures; of complications following a hip injury; in Washington...
...Hip, hip, and several hoorays for Phyllis McGinley [June 18] and her philosophy! May she continue to write her charming poetry, housekeep, and defend all other keepers of the home for many more years to come...
...Tolstoy was delighted by his crude force ("You . . . are a real peasant!"). Moscow's intelligentsia embraced the tall, stooped figure in high boots and belted black tunic. Gorky's wildly onomatopoeic Song of the Stormy Petrel became the battle anthem of the revolution, and soon he was hip deep in politics: setting up capitalist pigeons for Lenin to pluck, polemicizing both for and against the Bolsheviks. During the Leninist purges following the October Revolution, Gorky used his special relationship with Lenin to save many writers' lives. Finally breaking with the Bolsheviks, he exiled himself in Sorrento. There...
That suspicious bulge you may have noticed in the hip pocket of your favorite Harvard University policeman isn't his nickel-plated snub-nosed Berretta .25. It's probably his walkie-talkie, one link in a new communications system the University Police Installed Friday...