Word: peeled
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...undergoing an uncanny transformation. The pattern of change began a while ago, but it has picked up such speed that it is affecting both habits in the home and the future of an entire industry. Millions of cans no longer require keys or openers; they flip, zip, pop or peel. Cans now come in thin tin or aluminum instead of hefty old tin plate, and in many cases have evolved into containers of paper, plastic or fiber foil. The aerosol can, once limited to a few household uses, now dispenses everything from cake icing to lotion for poison...
...raised by a criminal's victim obliged any bystander to join the chase and catch the felon. Forerunner of the Wild West posse, the hue and cry was then England's only reliable method of law enforcement. But ever since 1829, when Sir Robert Peel fathered London's bobbies, the existence of fulltime police forces has made citizen's arrest so rare and unnecessary that it now seems to bring more peril than protection...
...there are also the tenements where the mortar is so fatigued with age that hoodlums had merely to peel the bricks from crumbling chimneys last week for ammunition to heave at the cops. Half of Harlem's buildings are officially classified as "deteriorating" or "dilapidated," but no classification-official or otherwise-can adequately describe their garbage-strewn hallways and rotting, rickety staircases, their rat-infested rooms and grease-caked stoves where the roaches fight one another for space, their crumbling plaster and Swiss-cheese ceilings...
...just the incompatibility of his coalition partners-the Socialists and the Christian Democrats. But, just like Pauline, the Moro government survived every major crisis and even began to have a look of permanence. Then, last week, as Italians put it, the coalition slipped on a "buccia di banana"-banana peel. On a minor vote on what had not even been a political issue, Moro's government was toppled...
Says Harvard-trained Robert Peel, of the church's Committee on Publication...