Word: spiral
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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With that observation in mind, McCracken will probably emphasize the utilization of adjustments in the money supply to stimulate or restrain the economy. One of his thorniest economic problems, of course, will be inflation. Any concerted drive to stop the price spiral would involve deflationary steps that could increase unemployment. McCracken would probably be willing to see the jobless rate rise slightly above the current 3.6% in order to cool the feverish economy. But he is unlikely to tolerate the 5%-plus rate that some economists and businessmen think is nec essary. In a recent speech, he noted that...
This plastics show demonstrates a beautiful all-plastic sub-aesthetic of this technological aesthetic. And within this even a washing machine agitator, lifted out of its laundromat context, becomes a graceful flowing-spiral sculpture...
...spend $50 billion, or the equivalent of two years in Vietnam, to attain "clear-cut superiority" over the Russians, by golly, we would do it. Hubert Humphrey, to his credit, believes in strategic parity and in quick, comprehensive, bilateral negotiations to head off another insane arms spiral...
...living beings and impart their characteristics. Then, in 1953, James Watson (author of The Double Helix] and Francis Crick put together more of the puzzle; they discovered that DNA consists of twin helices that are held together by regularly spaced links similar to the stairs of a spiral staircase...
This final twist-Lynd ends his slim outline at the Civil War-brings American radicals surprisingly close to what he regards as the final spiral in their evolution, "a frontal assault on the authority of the state." Enter the radicals of the 1960s right on cue, taking literally the nearly 200-year-old advice of the influential English political philosopher William Godwin, who declared that established authority has no more right to regulate an individual's actions than to regulate his thoughts...