Word: product
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Despite the report's lofty assertion that "a Senator is extended an extraordinary measure of trust and confidence not given to ordinary members of society," its very existence testifies that Senators can be, and have been, molded from crumbly clay. A product of more than two years of intermittent work (interrupted by necessity of investigating unsavory charges against Dodd and Missouri Democrat Edward V. Long), the Senate code, drawn up under the auspices of Mississippi's John Stennis, had at least one easily discernible merit: it was much more sin ewy than a bare-bones code dropped almost...
...says, are nurtured by deeper ambiguous feelings about themselves. "The shock trooper of the American expansion, the man with bedroll on back who freelanced beyond the community redoubts," was "a wild and recalcitrant wayfarer, bothersome to the settled citizen." But he was also "a unique and indigenous American product," and the settled citizen secretly envied him. Something inside every proper American, says Allsop, reponds to the haunting echo of a train whistle or a harmonica chorus of Road Tramp Blues...
...were under Saigon's rule, 2,000 under that of the Viet Cong and the rest neither quite one nor the other. But 1,300 civilians are believed dead, 3,700 wounded. Before Tet, the Delta had 14,000 refugees; now there are 170,000, the product of 19,000 houses destroyed and 5,000 heavily damaged. Road traffic is a fifth or less of normal traffic...
Upscale. In the old radio days, a commercial announcer was the very embodiment of the product. Jimmy Wallington was Chase & Sanborn. Don Wilson was JellO. Harry von Zell was Ipana. Today the sell is generally softer or more tangential, the product is illustrated, and the salesman is anonymous and generally invisible. "You're not paying for the name," explains Chandler Warren, talent-booking boss for the Young & Rubicam ad agency. "You're paying for the quality that a person brings to the commercial...
...product of the same political system that produced President Johnson. If elected, he will be subject to the same pressures from the military and big business and will have to act in similar ways...