Word: rubbers
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...fever is hardly a new affliction. The most enervating, enduring and escapist of social institutions, the convention is as American as rubber chicken, as ubiquitous as revolving hotel-top restaurants, as old as the nation itself. Our more perfect union was forged at a convention (Philadelphia, 1787), divided against itself at another (Montgomery, Ala., 1861), reunited at a rather intimate one (Appomattox Courthouse, 1865) and renewed quadriennially. Long before Sinclair Lewis chronicled the fictional convention high jinks of George F. Babbitt, boobus Americanus and prototypical conventioneer, other observers dis covered our penchant for gatherings. "As soon as several Americans have...
...should an aggressive, well-managed firm want to buy Firestone, the most troubled tire company in the land? Ask Borg-Warner (1977 sales of $2.03 billion), which last week announced a proposed merger that is really an $870 million takeover of the much larger tire and rubber maker ('77 sales: $4.4 billion). The advantages are clearer for Firestone and its unhappy stockholders than for Borg-Warner, which makes auto parts, air-conditioning gear, chemicals and plastics...
Digging in the corner to the left of the RPI net, Purdy grabbed the rubber and tossed it out front. George Hughes tipped the puck between Harrison's pads for his second goal of the night, cutting the margin...
...Done, "Southie Solipsisms." The article stereotyped South Bostonians as a bunch of racist, ignorant derelicts and perpetuated the misconceptions concerning a strong, vibrant community. My letter is not an attempt to whitewash the racial violence that has occurred in South Boston but instead to criticize anyone who seeks to rubber-stamp communities or people as belonging to a certain mold...
Behind the public image, another side of the Pope was emerging: that of a strong-minded decision maker. Instead of rubber-stamping the reappointments of senior Curia officials, John Paul announced that he needed time to ponder them. That stirred flutters of prelatic concern?was a reshuffle in store? He did fill the top Curia post of Secretary of State by reap-pointing Jean Cardinal Villot, 73, but he made a point of saying the assignment was 'Tor the initial period of our pontificate." Nonetheless, by naming a foreigner to the post, he passed up an opportunity to ease...