Word: petroleous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...still far from over. Independent gas suppliers are growing increasingly aggressive; some of them push their products by using beautiful girls as station-to-station salesmen. "Pirate tankers"-large tanker trucks with two full-sized petrol pumps attached to the rear-now tour main roads to sell motorists cut-rate gas as they speed to work or sporting events. Roadside operators have also begun to buy "distress lots" of ungraded gas and sell it cheaply under such names as "Zoom" and "Whoosh." Some of it is only 60 octane, hardly enough to run a sewing machine-but the British motorist...
...Thank you for the two gruesome closeups [TIME, May 28]. The headless, body with the cavernous trachea is a masterpiece. Your well-balanced shot of the young marine bleeding all over the petrol tank is also appealing. Mind you, I've noticed that some of the more squeamish journals invoke the same feeling of revulsion with good prose. I would rather have my horror pictorially, so please don't go highbrow and use the English language. Keep at it with your candid" camera...
...visited him at his home outside London, "the dreary pudding or pie of which a quarter or half had been consumed at dinner reappeared on the table the next day with its ravages unrepaired." He had a "passion for motoring," and he indulged it "to the last drop of petrol of any visitor's car." He was a hypochondriac and a fussbudget and noticeably thin-skinned where criticism of his work was concerned. But he was also the "greatest talker" she had ever...
...less lyrical recipient was Donald Carswell '50, whose often reprinted CRIMSON article Beating the System gained him the 1951 award. Beating the System is most frequently seen as a stormy petrol before the onset of exam period, and begins memorably, "This article is designed to explain how to achieve an answer to the examination problem by the use of the vague generality, the artful equivocation, and the overpowering assumption...
...Zealand's 80-seat, one-chamber Parliament. But within months Labor Prime Minister Walter Nash, now 78, announced that a balance-of-payments financial crisis had forced his government to renege on its campaign promises. To pay its bills, the government slapped new taxes on beer, tobacco and petrol, which more than canceled the tax rebates. Above all, New Zealand's voters were irritated by the feeling of pervasive government supervision of their tight little, right little island nation. A frequent gripe is that in the midst of prosperity, no one can buy an automobile except after paying...