Word: peached
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Peach for Status. If oversized...
...sure that your article will inspire the mom-and-apple-pie set to do everything in their power to keep our peach-fuzz Army unblemished by Mexican border towns...
...Listen-the Birds, illustrated by Evaline Ness (Pantheon; $3), achieves unpatronizing verse. The poet knows enough about chickadees to know they actually say chicka-dee-dee-dee, but the child who hopes to see live birds like the ones illustrated will be sadly deceived. James and the Giant Peach, by Roald Dahl (Knopf; $3.95), has illustrations in good old-fashioned pen and ink, though the subject matter, a magic peach big enough to house a boy and a whole bestiary, is perhaps on the squashy side...
...offered a Cabinet post, but for no clear reason finds himself quietly scuppered. The rejection rankles. A child of poverty, the hero has unhappily contracted one of the more dangerous diseases of deficiency: galloping ambition. He finds biological consolation by attaching himself to a gorgeous platinum blonde (Mary Peach) about half his age. He takes political revenge by attaching himself to the bright pink rump of the party. But these two concerns conflict. He misses his big chance to bait the Prime Minister because he has taken an opportunity to bed the blonde; and he loses the blonde because...
...aims much of its annual $35-$40 million advertising budget to wooing new shavers. Sunday comic sections are saturated with ads, and jive-talking disk jockeys ad-lib the merits of a "smooth kisser for the cool chick, young buddy." For as Carl Gilbert well knows, today's peach fuzz is tomorrow's 5 o'clock shadow...