Word: pal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...sick of irrelevant things on the sports page? Well, tough darts, pal. Why don't you unglue that Morrison & Boyd from your hand for a minute and feast your peepers on the most pointless test of knowledge you're probably ever going to face here...
...David Gevanthor, a New York City executive, proposed a new White House post: Presidential Aide for Liaison, or PAL. Fifty of these PALS would be appointed to tour each of the states in trailers and serve as a "conduit to the White House...
...spot of housecleaning at the Pall Mall branch of Barclays Bank the other day, officials opened the unclaimed trunk and turned up one of the literary finds of the century. Among the treasures: an original copy of the third canto of Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, by Davies' pal Lord Byron; early manuscripts of Hymn to Intellectual Beauty and Mont Blanc by Percy Bysshe Shelley; and two possibly unpublished poems by Shelley. Also scattered in the trunk were some 14 letters from Byron, including a complaint that he had picked up another dose of gonorrhea...
...think writing sports is pretty boring, huh? Well you're wrong, pal. You wouldn't believe the mail that floods my office daily; people ask me about everything--from football to fooling around--and for weeks I've been keeping it a secret from my reading public...
Rodgers and Hart's 1940 show Pal Joey about a handsome rodent of a gigolo was their best work and one of the greatest scores written for the theater--witty, melodic and cynical. It's never revived. Oklahoma!, Rodgers and Hammerstein's first collaboration has been done (one would bet) in most high-school auditoriums, gymnasiums and summer-stock tents in America. It's been done by Guy Lombardo on water and by Fred Zinnemann in Cinemascope. On any given night, its score can be heard in a solid minority of the nation's shower stalls. I myself appeared...