Word: premium
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Under Massachusetts laws," the fine print reads, "this ticket is a revocable license. If sold or offered for sale at a premium it becomes void." During most of the year, this warning is about as relevant as the Nineteenth Amendment. As the Yale game approaches, ticket scalping becomes hysteric, and nothing can stop...
...concentration camps go, Weihsien was relatively civilized. The prisoners were not beaten or tortured by their Japanese guards. But there was never enough food-Gilkey lost 45 Ibs. during the ordeal-and prison life was dominated by tensions wrought by both boredom and fear. Living space was at a premium in the compound, a former Presbyterian mission. In the dormitories, chalk lines were drawn on the floor, carefully delimiting the area each man had for his bed and few possessions. Privacy was almost nonexistent...
Poor walls or no walls, in fact, are responsible for the acoustical double life that so many Americans are forced to lead. Urbanization and the consequent spurt in apartment living, together with high costs, put a premium on smaller rooms, lower ceilings, cheaper materials. And the modern vogue for the light and glassy rather than the solid and massive, says Acoustical Engineer Leo Beranek, seems to be based "not on function but on poetry. Spaces are not isolated, but continue without barrier through glass, grilles and gardens. But continuous structures and the open plan are inimical to quiet living." From...
...Price & Premium. Nevertheless, the section of McNamara's speech that caught most of the headlines was far closer to his proper bailiwick-the draft. Said he: "Our present Selective Service System draws on only a minority of eligible young men. It is an inequitable system. We could move toward remedying that inequity by asking every young person in the U.S. to give one or two years of service to his country-whether in the Peace Corps or in some other volunteer development work at home or abroad...
...academic terms, it would make little sense to compel tomorrow's doctors, scientists and industrial captains to spend prime years in menial Government service. Despite the immediate inequity of deferring college men ahead of others, in one way or another the U.S. has always placed a comparable premium on achievement and excellence...