Word: ralph
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...FRIEND OF MINE, an undergraduate I'll call Ralph, returned to Cambridge last week on an eventful HSA charter to find his suite destroyed by flooding and subsequent efforts at repair...
...should say right off that Ralph has never been a conspiracy zuff. He has seen the Zapruder film only once and most of his friends think of him as a level-headed sort of fellow. But as the hours slid past and his reserve books remained on a landing strip in San Diego, Ralph's mind began to wander. He took to peering stealthily over the dining hall checker's shoulder to see whether or not he had eaten dinner, he hummed Carpenters' songs quietly to himself, and he hadn't slept since a fitful doze twenty thousand feet above...
More troubling to some critics was the definition of the job. According to a Ralph Nader organization, Public Citizen, "the ridiculous and arcane bureaucratic language used in the preparation of the [State Department] report comes closer to parody than serious Government proposal." Mrs. Braden admits to being somewhat vague about her duties ("I've only been here since Friday," she said last week, after her first days on the job). Most probably, she will attempt to apply her clear-as-mud mandate to such matters as wheat sales, export taxes and passports. But even some State Department officials concede...
Various other charismatic and influential Americans are sometimes discussed as potential presidential candidates, but cannot be taken too seriously because they have no broad leadership experience or represent too limited concerns. Consumer Advocate Ralph Nader, 41, would be in this group, along with many outstanding scientists and intellectuals...
Silent Spring and Ralph Nader. Abruptly, technology was cast as villain, plucking man from nature's bosom and forcing upon him tedious jobs and trivial products...