Word: roto
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...like battling scorpions, stingers at the ready. Jabbed Representative John Conlan: "We are both conservatives, but our style is different. He uses a meat ax and I use a scalpel." Riposted Representative Sam Steiger: "John thinks of himself as a scalpel. I prefer to think of him as a Roto-Rooter." So it went in perhaps the year's most vicious political contest, the fight for the Arizona Republican nomination to succeed retiring G.O.P. Senator Paul Fannin. Last week that contest ended when Steiger, by a margin of about 10,000 votes out of a record 195,000 cast...
...Hsin Chiao bar, habitues advise visitors to stick to the excellent domestic beer. Chinese champagne ($2 a bottle) is cloyingly sweet, and the fiery mao-tai, a vodka-like spirit distilled from millet that is a favorite formal banquet tipple, reams out the unwary Western esophagus like a Roto-Rooter...
...condition of the student movement right now is a complex one. Last spring's Cambodia strike saw the largest, most mass-based, most militant student movement in recent U.S. history. Dozens of ROTO buildings burned hundreds of campuses were shut tight. And yet, despite some limited successes, the Cambodia strike was basically a failure: look at a news paper these days. A mood of cynicism grew out of that strike, which had two sides; on the one hand, there is a lot more radical sentiment on campus. Many more people think that the system stinks. But, on the other hand...
...there are any truly American sounds, one is surely the radio station break, complete with fragmentary tune and a slick chorus−"Double-yew Emmm Eeee Ellll, Light and Lively!" Blame it on Pepper & Tanner of Memphis, those wonderful folks who also brought you "Hey, Culligan Man" and the Roto-Rooter jingle (". . . and away go troubles down the drain...