Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...easy to say that English is an ageless language ever renewed by fresh words and concepts. But lately it has been polluted by creeping neologisms and solecisms, many of them spawned by military jargon, television clichés and youthcult dialects. Should lexicographers rubber-stamp the linguistic junk or rear back and proclaim standards...
Despite such obstacles, the city is building the world's highest (elevation: 7,349 ft.) underground transit system. Later this month President Gustavo Diaz Ordaz is to dedicate the first ten-mile stretch of the $300 million, 26-mile net work. Then French-built, orange-colored trains with rubber tires will start rolling along the tracks at three-minute intervals. For months, proud Mexicans have been lining up on Sunday afternoons by the thousands to gawk at the project and its artfully decorated stations, including one built around an Aztec pyramid unearthed during the excavations. They have dubbed...
...remembering that rats, not hogs, are there to eat it. Worse, the city did not collect trash until last week and is still unable to enforce its rudimentary sanitation laws; much of the population cannot afford even minimal fines. As a result, vacant lots have sprouted moldering mountains of rubber tires, empty cans, cardboard boxes and putrefying scraps of food. The rats love...
...milk chocolate." In another rib cracker, the straight man wonders: "Hey, Junior, how come I saw you eating with a knife at supper?" Junior: "My fork leaked." After the worst lines-not that any of them are good-an offstage hand socks it to the culprit with a rubber chicken. Or an animated donkey pops up and chortles: "Wouldn't that sop your gravy?" To the relief of CBS, Hee Haw, which has taken over the Smothers Brothers' time slot, never gets more controversial than: "What's the difference between a horse race and a political race...
...little such fear on the part of younger people. They are members of the confident generation, which has known only good times. Many investors are heeding brokers' advice to hold on and ride out the difficult period. "Hell, I've got no choice," says an Akron rubber-company executive who early this year sold all his previous holdings and put the proceeds into Nuclear Corporation of America at 5 and Aero-Flow Dynamics at 14. Last week Nuclear sold as low as 41 and Aero-Flow dipped under 12. Says the executive: "I can't sell...