Word: saws
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harold McDougall, assistant head of ISSP, said, "The whole black communty (on a national scale) has been catalyzed in the last year. Last year, if one black saw another, he might wonder, "Should I say hello to this guy? Maybe he wants to blend in and I shouldn't embarrass him by having a Negro say hello...
...gotta do is ac' naturally" to be the biggest star, and he's right. His flat, nasal shout relies for accompaniment on little more than electronic twangs and a passel of whooping colleagues, while he delivers the ordinary man's poetic visions: "When I first saw you, babe, you nearly made me wreck/My ole '49 Cadillac...
...sport coats, occasionally even in turtlenecks. "But if they want to become a boss," says one vice president, "they had better dress like the boss does, which means white shirt, dark suit, dark shoes and socks and a conservative tie." Similar ground rules apply in the automobile industry. "I saw someone in a yellow-and-green-plaid sport coat walking through the lobby," says a General Motors Corp. executive. "He was probably a summer replacement...
Second in size only to American Express and serving 10 million travelers a year through 420 offices around the world, Cook's saw its profits dawdle along during the early 1960s and by last year they were down to a mere $2.2 million on a turnover of $378 million. At least part of this sluggishness can be ascribed to the heavy hand of the British government, which has owned the company since 1948. Tory pressure is already building up in Parliament to return Cook's to private ownership...
Martin Luther accused him of playing God. An English observer saw him as an idler who wanted "only an apple and a fair wench to dally with." To one subject he was "a tyrant more cruel than Nero." When his wife Anne Boleyn was about to be beheaded by his executioner, she maintained: "A gentler nor a more merciful prince was there never." Even as they felt the impact of his boisterous personality, the sting of his vindictiveness, or the thrust of his appetite for pleasure and power, the contemporaries of King Henry VIII could never quite understand...