Word: perk
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...business of being a politician. He ran a citizens' committee for Democratic Governor John Gilligan, chaired an environmental task force, and ate countless dinners of rubber chicken on the state political circuit. This year he beat Metzenbaum in the primary, and last week he defeated Cleveland Mayor Ralph Perk, 64% to 31%. Glenn leaves little doubt of his interest in holding a higher office or of his desire to get on the Senate Interior Committee so that he can work on national energy policy...
...needs for sex while they underestimate an older woman's needs." Part of the trouble, he thinks, is that Russian women rise to their sexual peak around 30 and often stay fairly high until their 60s; men, however, slip into a "slow and gradual descent" after 30. To perk up those in need, he describes the erogenous zones of the body and suggests ways of using them to maximum effect. "In love," according to Svyadoshch, "everything is permitted that may bring a couple to full harmony...
...shrunk almost to himself, his family and a handful of aides. Cabinet officers and agency heads are allowed in when business demands entry. But there is no camaraderie. In the old days somebody like John Connally could roar and swear at the enemies and tell a few stories to perk up the President. Connally has his own problems now. There was no meeting with the congressional leadership last week. A session with the economic advisers was postponed, then canceled. The bulletin board on which the President's and Mrs. Nixon's schedules are posted each day was empty...
During stock market slumps, many a corporation president entertains the Mittyesque dream of buying his entire company back from the public. Now stock prices have dipped so low, even while corporate profits generally perk higher, that some firms can actually afford to do it. Most are small companies that went public during the go-go '60s, when joining a booming market was an excellent way to raise capital and also provided the means-through attractive stock options-for luring talented executives. "Now every motivation seems to have gone away. Probably 80%-90% of the over-the-counter traded companies...
...nomination in 1970, Metzenbaum, with eight years' experience as a state legislator and an efficient, well-financed campaign, beat Glenn. Metzenbaum then lost in the general election to Robert Taft, but this year the Democratic nomination is more valuable. The winner of the Republican primary, Cleveland Mayor Ralph Perk, is a far weaker candidate than Taft...