Word: perring
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...workers are now called Werktdtige - work-active persons. The East Germans have also dropped the use of the term Pro- letariat, because intellectuals and white-collar workers felt left out. Rationelle Arbeit, which means rational work in West Germany, has become East Germany's pet euphemism for work per formed in accord with party goals. In the West German dictionary, aufrusten means t6 rearm. The East German dictionary warns that when the word is used in Bundesdeutsch, or Federal German, it means "to increase the number of troops and their equipment with aggressive intentions...
...suited to the challenge of luring professorial talent into New Jersey, he will have to use all of his skills in salesmanship. The state has a deserved reputation for penny-pinching in running its colleges and its lone public university, Rutgers. It recently ranked 46th among the states in per capita support of higher education. The situation was so bad that a committee headed by Princeton President Robert F. Goheen last year urged a complete reorganization of the system. Pushed by Governor Richard Hughes, the New Jersey legislature enacted reforms, took higher education out of the hands of a state...
...such surefire fare, CBS has been paying MGM a bargain rate of $200,000 for each replay. When the network's option finally ran out this year, bidding understandably leaped somewhere over the rainbow. MGM asked for $1,000,000 per showing, almost the same rate as the record $2,300,000 it received from ABC this year for the first two TV reruns of Marlon Brando's Mutiny on the Bounty...
...works with General Dynamics. Ling, back in Dallas by now, was unfazed. He merely uncorked "Plan B"-a new offer to buy all of the stock for a mix of cash plus two classes of L-T-V shares worth, by LTV's estimate, around $55 per share of Allis-Chalmers' common. Moreover, he promised Stevenson and six other directors spots on LTV's board, said that Allis-Chalmers could retain "existing management control...
...infant, at the age of 14 was given a tiny printing press by his father. He used it to print letterheads and menus, and to turn out a magazine called Boy's Ideal, which eventually gained a circulation of 2,500 at 250 per annual subscription. He took his earnings and went to the University of Pittsburgh, but dropped out during...