Word: minimum
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...they play bridge? Are they hi-fi buffs? Do they have young children or teenagers? What are their hobbies? Working with a decorator is thus something like going to a psychiatrist, only more expensive: name decorators reckon on spending at least $10,000 for each room and a minimum of $50,000 for an entire house...
...average time in plaster was 19 weeks, but some men got out in seven. All the fractures healed, there were no amputations, muscle atrophy was kept to a minimum, and the only men who needed braces were those with nerve injuries...
...states have "assigned-risk" plans, requiring every insurance company to accept a quota of castoffs, whom they sometimes charge 150% above standard rates for minimum coverage. For some accident-prone drivers, even that price may be a bargain, but insurance companies have been so fast and loose about canceling policies that many of those dumped into the assigned-risk pool do not deserve it. In 1964-65, for example, almost 70% of New York's assigned-risk drivers had clean driving records...
With only the judge dissenting, the commission concluded that censorship should go. Last June, after a minimum of debate, the 176-man Parliament agreed by an overwhelming vote of 159 to 13. What happened? Immediately, of course, a flood of new books came out under such labels as the "Porno Series" and with such titles as Stark-Naked, the story of a frigid girl whose therapy by an orgasm expert is carefully detailed. The ecstatic exactness of description had not been legal before, and publishers settled back to await the hordes of buyers...
Last weekend, for example, 65 members of Washington, D.C.'s 1,700-member Emerald Shillelagh Chowder & Marching Society flew to Stowe, Vt, for skiing; round-trip in the club's DC-7B cost $37 apiece, compared with a minimum of $80 for the same flight on a commercial airline. Over the same weekend and at similar savings, Denver's Ports of Call ferried 68 members to Nassau; Cincinnati's Travel A-Go-Go and Manhattan's Society of Sky Roamers delivered 90 members each to Miami for the Super Bowl; World Samplers of Dallas lifted...