Word: pass
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Jonestown: the name of the commune is destined, like Watergate and Viet Nam, to pass into our vocabulary as a synecdoche, a symbol for something larger. The victims cannot be dismissed as mere crazies: many were poor, elderly blacks, but a number were well-educated younger people from seemingly comfortable backgrounds. What united them was partly a fear of freedom, partly a defect in will that led them to surrender blindly to any powerful leader, any strong faith - things they somehow were not able to find in U.S. society and so rejected it. They did so even though the leader...
...Please pass the word to Professor Frederic Cassidy to come to Baltimore for some choice regionalisms...
GUIDELINES. The tendency of workers to demand big raises to catch up with past inflation and protect themselves against future price boosts, and of companies to pass along all cost increases and add a bit more, makes inflation accelerate. At first Carter contented himself with pleas for restraint and named Robert Strauss as special counsellor on inflation to do some mild jawboning. Strauss's six-month tenure will be remembered mostly for one rueful wisecrack: "The score is inflation 100, Strauss 0." In October, Carter replaced him with CAB Chairman Alfred Kahn and proclaimed formal guidelines with some teeth...
...things, Airport 79, the Concorde. On the flight, she chats with a handsome Republican Senator from Illinois going to Europe to evaluate the reaction to President Carter's energy policy. Scene 2: On a boat trip on the Seine the next day, the Senator and his wife pass by the film location. He is hailed and invited to be interviewed by his friend from the plane, who plays a TV anchorwoman in the movie. Ending: Senator Charles Percy winds up getting a cameo in Airport 79 ("It's about time we bite the bullet," says he), and Actress...
...Kermit's head, and, using a stiff and nearly invisible black wire, made Kermit's right hand strum the banjo strings. Another Muppeteer onshore worked a radio control that allowed Kermit's left hand to do the chord changes. Now and then, between takes, someone would row over and pass a cup of iced tea down to Henson through the rubber sleeve...