Word: roget
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...woman updates Roget...
...television--have at least as many detractors as advocates. The chorus of critics of the godawful tube swells measurably with every September's new harvest of sitcoms, and their dirge, for good reason usually, is deafeningly loud. Television has had enough evil-sounding adjectives attached to it to intimidate Roget, and the articles on the T.V. drug don't just proliferate, they pullulate. And one has to feel we have scaled the pinnacle of absurdity when T.V. performs a dialogue between self and soul and covers the trial of a young felon who blames his crime on T.V. derangement...
Established in 1923 with little more than a Roget's Thesaurus, a dictionary and a world almanac, the Time Inc. library has grown into the largest facility of its kind in the U.S., with 25 professional librarians and 63 clerks, newspaper markers and indexers. Last year it processed 150,576 queries from the company's various operations, 58,839 from TIME alone. The library contains half a million information folders on people, companies and news topics, 87,000 books and government publications and a running collection of several hundred periodicals. About the only thing it lacks is space...
...three years now, the key to that defense's success has been middle guard Kevin Czinger. He pronounces his name "Zinger," and if they listed it in Roget's, you would find it next to "tough." It seems that nothing--not a badly sprained ankle suffered in Yale's 35-7 humiliation of Dartmouth, not a sinus infection that spread into his lung before Yale clobbered Princeton (he played anyway), not his opponents' constant tendency to double-team him--can stop Kevin Czinger...