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Word: psst (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...PSST. We hear there is quite a fuss in media-land these days. It appears that nobody appreciates the good little reporter who slaves away getting his Facts Right, explaining the Issues to the People and finding the Big story. Rumor has it (although we can't believe it), people don't read the front pages first...

Author: By Amy B. Mclntosh, | Title: All Eyes and Ears | 12/11/1978 | See Source »

...Psst... want to speculate against the dollar? It's easy - even if the amateur lacks the cash or savvy to deal in the big-time foreign-exchange markets. For $26.75 almost anybody can buy a traveler's check denominated in German marks or Japanese yen; $32.95 gets one denominated in Swiss francs. The buyer can hold it as long as he likes and then cash it in at the exchange rate prevailing that...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Easy Speculation | 10/23/1978 | See Source »

...Psst. Want a mortgage for under 8%? Try moving to Chicago...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: City Bank | 8/28/1978 | See Source »

...Psst... want to buy a hot 50-ton bulldozer...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Hauler Heists | 5/15/1978 | See Source »

...Truman Capote and Answered Prayers, and Elizabeth Ray and The Washington Fringe Benefit, the roman à clef may become not only the form the bestselling novel takes in 1976 but the symbol of a rather shoddy year that could just possibly go down in history as the Age of Psst!−Have-You-Heard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Time Essay: Now for the Age of Psst! | 6/28/1976 | See Source »

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