Word: rad
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard to lose all the time," said Howard, who had earned all-loop honors at wing for Franklin (Mass.) High School. "I was used to winning in high school. I didn't have any friends on the squad here, and was having a tough time with Rad-cliffe in general...
...Rad. Grant-in-Aid Musicals...
...called "What Is a Liberal-Who Is a Conservative?" provides a useful guide to the semantic bedlam. Most of the 64 contributing intellectuals were once content to call themselves liberal. Now they fastidiously invoke qualifiers. They speak of early and late liberals, paleoliberals, center extremists, tough-minded liberals, of "rad-libs" and "trad-libs...
There was a great 60s junk novel called The Harvard Experiment that was about a college in Cambridge, Mass. (Har-Rad, get it?) where they put all freshman in rooms with members of the opposite sex, just so the could be fully educated. The point is that if you were going to hint plausibly that any American college is a sex haven, you'd hint that it's Harvard. The old tabloid Hearst newspaper in Boston liked that Harvard the best: "HARVARD BARES WILD PARTIES" was its banner headline...
...precipitated much inane commentary from the press on mixing athletics with social criticism, but on the whole the reporters like him because he's a good source: he may be Lost in Space from time to time but he's got more brains and charm than anyone on the Rad Sox. His post-game lectures on the TV news on the subject of the astrological influences on his curve ball that night are particularly edifying. In fact, his curve ball can be quite fine--he's second in the rotation and has one of the best pick-off motions...