Word: peg
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...guess Jackie Gleason realized you can't put a round peg in a square home...
From first grade to college, and in industry and the military as well, the intelligence quotient is the chief U.S. measuring rod for separating the bright from the dull. But to a growing body of angry critics. I.Q. tests are unfair. They argue that too many teachers peg children by one I.Q. test. Yet many of the challenges -typically, picture puzzles, number games or scrambled sentences-do not measure native intelligence so much as cultural advantages such as familiarity with vocabulary and material objects. Thus I.Q.s. instead of being fixed for life, can be raised by training. Then...
...agriculture and mining at home. The Latin Americans themselves further hamper things by placing restrictive measures on exports in the misguided notion that they are encouraging local processors and manufacturers. Brazil sometimes sets quotas on cotton and sugar exports; Uruguay imposes a 20% surtax on export wool. Other nations peg their export prices without making any provision for the inflation that gallops through most of Latin America...
...Ruby (vodka and cranberry juice), the drinker may well feel such a Suffering Bastard (rums, lime and liqueurs) that he will want to see Dr. Funk of Tahiti ("redolent of French rums and absinthe"). Actually, the author of these "Polynesian" cocktails has never roamed the South Seas. Nevertheless, salty, peg-legged Victor Bergeron, 58, has parlayed a flair for serving good food amid a supply of grass skirts, Tiki gods and outrigger canoes into the most successful chain of seaweed restaurants west of Suez: Trader...
Competing for the new market, dress manufacturers have adapted dresses designed by smart French and Italian couturiers and put them into mass production at off-the-peg prices ($35 for a suit, $9 for a dress). Glossy women's magazines filled with how-to-do-it beauty articles have proliferated and prospered. Any hairdresser styling himself "René of Paris" or "André of Mayfair" does a roaring business...