Word: screaming
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Bingo was legalized six months ago when the gambling provisions of the new Betting and Gaming Act made playing for money legal if all money staked was returned in prizes. Since then, bingo clubs have sprung up by the hundreds, as warm with women ready to scream "Bingo!" when the magic square is checked. Profits to the house come only from admissions and sale of refreshments; by now, bingo is a $150 million-a-year business...
...Talk softly and carry a big stick" has been replaced by "Scream loudly and brandish your toothpick!" We like peace as well as anyone, but not at the price of our respect and integrity...
...Austrian Jews but keeping their possessions. In dealing with Jewish leaders, Eichmann delighted in playing the role of unpredictable tyrant. One day, he would be soft-spoken and agreeable, even delaying a transport of Jews so that it would not start on Yom Kippur; the next, he would scream hysterically and emphasize his points by slamming the desk with his swagger stick. When war began, Eichmann was head of the SS bureau called IV A 4 b-in Teutonic officialese, IV stood for the Gestapo, A for Internal Affairs, 4 for religion, and b for Jews. Until...
Taken aback at first, the flannel-mouthed females who have trademarked the New Orleans school rebellion turned up at school to scream at the youngsters. White housewives picketed the Walgreen's drugstore where John Thompson worked as a $73-a-week clerk, and he lost his job. (Later, Walgreen officials insisted that Thompson had asked for a transfer.) The landlady ordered the Thompson family to get out of their $70-a-month apartment. Without telling anyone where they were going, John Thompson and his family took a load of wet wash off the line, packed the rest of their...
...improbable a week as the fashion world has known for many a year. At the house of Cardin, which drew the week's first applause for a superlative line, a mannequin was showing a new fat-chested dress to a U.S. buyer. She was suddenly interrupted with a scream from the vendeuse: "But darling, you're wearing it back to front!" When Madeleine de Rauch's collection failed to follow the flapper trend, the audience began to leave, and waiters dashed in with champagne to stem the bored retreat. In contrast, Designer Goma got such an enthusiastic...