Word: socking
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...year on the music scene. The Cascades were cruising with "Rhythm of the Rain," Little Stevie Wonder hit the charts with "Fingertips" and Ruby and the Romantics were making sock hops tops crooning "Our Day Will Come." In 1963 the MIT soccer team beat Harvard...
...again the news was bad. While entering the U.S. from Canada, Anne Hearst, 19, younger sister of Fugitive Patty Hearst, was stopped by customs officials in Niagara Falls, N.Y., and her car and its occupants searched. Agents found a plastic bag containing a dozen amphetamine tablets stuffed in the sock of Anne's driving companion, Donald Moffett, 21, and promptly arrested the pair for possession of dangerous drugs. U.S. federal agents rushed to the scene, hoping Anne could provide information about her sister, who police suspect may now be hiding in Canada with the remnants of the Symbionese Liberation...
...with Charles Bronson and everything, especially the slick director Michael Winner, but "fascism" in the picture can be taken in two ways. As always with movies being as frighteningly manipulative as they are, one identifies with Bronson as he walks the streets shooting muggers, or crowning them with a sock full of rolls of coins--you can't help it. And some can say legitimately that yes this is just about some creep who goes around offing poor people while they make a hero out of him. But in another sense one can find a general rebellion against urban life...
...best seller in the socks scene is a style known as the "toe sock" or "wiggler," which fits, glovelike, in between the toes. The toe look is so successful that one manufacturer, Bonnie Doon, will soon introduce a mitten sock that has one section for the big toe, another for the remaining digits...
...large portion of the U.S. economic decline is concentrated in the auto industry. Ford is gambling that giving Americans $15 billion back from their last year's taxes will produce a buying binge that will halt the recession. But some economists fear that too many worried consumers will simply sock their windfall away in savings accounts. That would make more money available for mortgages and help the housing industry but still not get vital auto sales up to normal and necessary levels...