Word: howards
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...solecism sweepstakes, television maintained its undisputed lead. Those who wanted weathermen to stop misusing a word ("Hopefully it'll be a good weekend") were left hopeless. Connoisseurs of outrageous grammar once relished close encounters of the Susskind. In 1977 Howard Cosell became the new favorite. "Our surmisal is correct" was one of many errors produced by the World Series; so was an "instrumentality of destruction" (a smoke bomb). Cosell's colleagues relayed his throes: "The Chiefs went into the game overwhelming underdogs"; "The player is loaded with inexperience...
...showed up. The once tattered social fabric is being rewoven. Across the country, charities report sharp increases in donations of all kinds. In Portland, Ore., the United Way fund drive not only met but exceeded its goal for the first time in a decade. Said Drive Director Howard Studd: "We're really a good barometer of psychological attitudes. People are feeling relaxed and confident about the future. We're coming off a couple of rough years-Viet Nam, Watergate, inflation, unemployment. People had lost faith in the public institutions. Maybe they're regaining their faith...
...more structured curriculum, with more required and fewer optional courses. Long before he gave any thought to being Yale's president, he was in favor of curtailing many of the new seminars taught by outside "experts," including one on the role of sports in contemporary American society given by Howard Cosell...
...bill passed and themselves home for Christmas, Senators dropped an amendment sponsored by Delaware Republican William Roth to give parents a $250 tax credit for each son or daughter enrolled in college. Roth finally bowed to intense pressure, much to the relief of Republican Leader Howard Baker, Democratic Leader Robert Byrd and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Russell Long. Said Roth: "I fought the good fight, but there will be another...
...Pittsburgh-based Evangelical who gives religious guidance to college students, have joined U.N. Ambassador Andrew Young, Football Coach Tom Landry and other notables in convoking 800 "national leaders" to a glittering "Congress of the Laity" in Los Angeles next February. The vague forum, devised by wealthy Lay Evangelist Howard Butt Jr., is intended to gather in one place the broadest possible collection of influential people who are at least "open to the leadership of Jesus Christ...