Word: man
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Like a man in his prime, American productivity had looked so robust, so deceptively healthy. From the end of World War II through the 1960s, it increased comfortably at an annual average of just over 3%. The first symptom of trouble struck in the 1970s, when gains started averaging half of that. They tumbled to 1.6% in 1977 and .4% in 1978. Now that most important measure of an economy's efficiency is showing the most alarming decline. Output per hour worked in private business dropped at an annual rate of 2.8% in this year's first quarter...
...Khrushchev. According to one confused youth leader, Stalin was "commander in chief of the Germans and was finally shot in the head." Two thought Khrushchev was "the President of the United States in the early '60s," while a third identified the desk-pounding former Premier as "the first man to go into space...
Groll got an honorable discharge from the U.S. Army. He has not sought money for his strange revelations. He was always a rootless man, according to Toledo Lawyer Sheldon Slaybod, a friend who knew him before the conversion. The years in the wilds have not changed him much, says Slaybod, "although he's a lot more at peace with himself...
...prince in Strider is flogged into the ground in a vain chase after Serpuhofsky's faithless mistress (Burrell transformed into a heart wrecker of a woman). Strider ends in the knacker's yard awaiting the knife. Serpuhofsky, too tipsy to stand up, a prince turned slave, a man who once commanded 2 million rubles, ends up trying to cadge a thousand from an arriviste. In a moment of extreme poignance, the prince spies Strider. He remembers him and yet refuses to recognize him. Time, the supreme sculptor of decay and death, has confronted him with his own crumbling...
...Prime Minister he urged increased independence from the U.S., to be accomplished largely through the development of Canada's natural resources and the Arctic north. Though an unwavering antiCommunist, he detested McCarthyism and promoted trade with China and ties to Cuba. Criticized for running a one-man show, "Dief the Chief was eventually defeated by Liberal Lester Pearson, partly because he refused to arm Canada's NATO force with U.S. atomic weapons. Elected to Commons for a record 13th time last May, he appeared on TV five days before his death, decrying the divisions in his country: "Suspicion...