Word: picking
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...permanent deafness. Sound vibrations are transmitted by the eardrum and ossicle bones to the inner ear, a bony and membranous structure lined with tiny hairs that connect to the brain's auditory nerve. It is these hairs that are damaged most in noise-induced deafness. The ones that pick up the high frequencies are the first to wear out, and as the noise bombardment continues, the destruction creeps inward to nerves of lower frequency-all without the hearer being aware of damage. About 18 million Americans suffer total or partial deafness; among working males two out of three cases...
...Glue. For days the local newspapers had been full of the mock-solemn high jinks that Art Professor Kaprow, Sculptor Charles Frazier and CBS Producer Gordon Hyatt were concocting. The point, explained Kaprow, was to have a plan, but no rehearsal, no separation of audience and spectators. Just pick a theme, arrange the setting, and let things happen. For the Hamptons' Happening, which was to go on for three days, the theme was "Gas," in part because Kaprow & Co. intended to use a lot of helium for balloons...
...when the time comes. I've had some tremendous profits over the years. I've had some losses. Nobody has plusses all the time." And in Boston, Housewife Cici Philbin, 25, the daughter of a stockbroker, senses opportunity in the slide. Says she: "It's a good time to pick...
...loans and by asking its overseas employees to open their homes to strandees. U.S. consulates certified that the travelers were strikebound in case bosses doubted them. Airlines and travel agents worked out intricate, substitute passages that sometimes involved taking a bus from one country to another in order to pick up a U.S.-bound flight...
...based airlines that were still flying-notably American and Pan Am -were having their own troubles. Though they have done all they can to pick up strike-caused traffic, they are embarrassed by the fact that many potential passengers call their ticket offices, get busy signals, and assuming that the situation is hopeless, give up. American, which has had some flights depart with unfilled seats, ran ads last week trying to smooth over the situation. "Come out to the American terminal at the airport," the ads urged. "If the flight you want is all booked up, there...