Word: socks
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Rowan and Martin's TV Laugh-In domesticated chaos into snippets. It flashed absurdities, like vaudeville on amphetamines -- Goldie Hawn dancing in body paint, Tiny Tim tiptoeing through the tulips. Laugh-In gave the nation "You bet your sweet bippy!" and "Sock it to me," a line that Republican Candidate Richard Nixon, among other celebrities, recited in three seconds of network time in September. (In deference to his dignity, Nixon was spared the customary dousing with a bucket of water.) The Rolling Stones snarled about the Street Fighting Man. Never before had an annus mirabilis transpired before the television cameras...
...black eye, $1,428 for a broken nose, $2,940 for a fractured jaw and as much as $13,440 for a serious facial scar. Said Home Office Minister John Patten: "I am anxious that the victims get a better deal." As for the bad guys, sock...
First settled in the 1860s, by pioneers crossing the snow-capped Cascade Mountains, the county today reflects a modern version of that rugged independence. "This is a red-neck, white-sock county, dogs in the back of pickups, everyone wants to carry a gun," says a longtime political observer. The county seat of Prineville (pop. 5,250) is a "detour down a back road," to lift a line from a country ballad popular there. Lumber trucks and pickups rumble through the town's four traffic lights, which feel the strain of traffic only during hunting season. The lone presidential candidate...
...self-deprecation to parry charges that she was interfering unduly in affairs of state. "This morning I had planned to clear up U.S.-Soviet differences on intermediate-range nuclear missiles," she told a publishers' luncheon in New York City last year. "But I decided to clean out Ronnie's sock drawer instead...
...husband's $45,000 within two years," whispers Goodrum. She and a friend have enrolled so they can travel the country with their trucker husbands. An appliance technician is here because "there are too many technicians in Fort Worth." The pilot "wants to see life on the ground" and sock away a retirement kitty...