Word: primed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Representative Lee Gate, champion of Crotaphytus collaris, introduced a prime boomer in a box to the assembly. The box fell. The lizard leaped. A fleet-footed fellow, he accomplished several laps around the chamber floor before being collared. Despite impressive arguments by a state senator who favored the horned toad, Crotaphytus collaris will share honors with mistletoe (Phoradendron flavescens), the state flower; the redbud (Cercis canadensis), the state tree; and the scissor-tailed flycatcher (Muscivora forficatd), the state's official bird. State officials of Alabama, which has long been nicknamed the Lizard State, refrained from comment...
...members of most professions-be they baseball players, politicians or journalists-treat their calling with gravity and decorum, at least in public. Privately, they may kid their colleagues mercilessly. Artists, on the other hand, like actors, regard their fellows as prime targets for public parody. Lately, works of art poking gentle, and occasionally savage fun at other works of art seem to be multiplying like guppies. Though these works sometimes look like literal copies, they are usually sly, even malicious comments about the nature of art and its relation to reality. John Clem Clarke's stylized version of Frans...
...poor country of India's size cannot cope with its problems unless it learns to place the national interest above every parochial interest." Government officials, however, seemed intent on ducking decisions. Home Minister Y. B. Chavan confined himself to saying that he considered the Bombay uproar "most unfortunate." Prime Minister Indira Gandhi made no statement...
Hospitals are big business. Yet according to Jerome Pollack, professor of medical economics at Harvard Medical School, they are a prime example of gross mismanagement. Hospitals are run by boards of trustees, made up mostly of businessmen, who would never dream of running their own corporations the way they try to operate a hospital...
With money harder to get, interest rates have rocketed. The prime rate for the banks' major corporate customers has climbed to a historic high of 7%, and could go higher. Federal Housing Administration mortgage rates have risen from 61% to about 71% over the past year. A man who got a 25-year, $20,000 FHA mortage a year ago would have to make monthly payments of $135; if he signed a similar mortgage now, he would commonly have to pay $144. Last week a subsidiary of American Telephone & Telegraph issued a Triple-A bond with a 7% interest...