Word: socko
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...Carter can build a public groundswell for Stage 2, labor and business, for all their misgivings, may feel forced to observe the guidelines, and if the wage-price spiral can be slowed, the Government will get more time to chop away at the budget deficit. But even if a socko TV speech gets the program off to a good start, the President will face the tough task of maintaining public, labor and business confidence -and imposing unpleasantly stringent spending discipline on his own Administration-for what at best will be a long, long haul...
...oneself while shaving and concentrating on unpaid bills. T.S. Eliot broke his block by writing poems in French. (Dabbling in lesser languages removes pressure to perform in mother tongue.) Tom Wolfe, to tally blocked on his first famous article, a story about customized cars for Esquire, wrote a really socko memorandum to his editor on the subject. The editor ran the memo as the article. Wolfe now writes all his articles as memos. (On the other hand he is at least three years late with his current book...
...encountered -the heads of the West's major democracies. The early verdict appeared to be unanimous. The new U.S. President passed muster with high marks and was received into the exclusive ranks of world statesmen. In fact, Carter's debut was nothing short of socko...
Recombinant franks and beans...spinach that did a socko comic monologue before I swallowed it...spaghetti that twirled itself around my fork like a whirling dervish...And that chopped liver...
...this season, the early warnings had been sounded as far back as November-and suddenly they proved all too accurate. "The past four or five winters have been comparatively warm," said Carl Suchocki of the Natural Gas Supply Committee, an industry lobby. "But this one has been el socko...