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Word: ongemach (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1969-1969
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Some engineers eventually find that they have more in common with jargon-speaking secretaries than with their wives. Electrical Engineer Kenneth Ongemach, for example, met his second wife Grace when she was a secretary at the company where he worked two jobs ago. Now 32, Ongemach owns a stereo set so complicated that he objects when other people try to operate it. His garage shelters a 1966 Cadillac and 1968 Pontiac Firebird with a 400-h.p. engine that he souped up himself. When his cars or his job preoccupy him so much that Grace complains, he told TIME Miami Bureau...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Communities: Life in the Space Age | 7/4/1969 | See Source »

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