Word: staid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...their 28th American League pennant by 10½ games, but New York fans merely yawned-the impossible Mets had drawn almost as many people. Then the Yankees got shut out 4-0 in the World Series, and everybody cheered. There was only one thing to do. Last week the staid old Yankees took a deep breath and signed Yogi Berra as their manager...
...Britain (including a $615 purchase tax), the new Rover sells for less than the cheapest Jaguar, and on the Continent should be highly competitive with the small Mercedes and Citroën. Rover executives worry whether the 2000's flashy good looks will steal sales from its staid older brothers, which are still in production. But why worry? At the London show, Rover salesmen have already collected enough orders for the new car to keep Rover's plants running at full speed for an entire year...
...world's most dramatic outburst of higher education is under way in neither the U.S. nor Russia but in staid old Britain, which is creating seven brand-new universities of the highest academic order. One of them has been running for two years; two more open this week; four others...
When Dior's Marc Bohan took the plunge in evening dresses for his latest collection, fashion writers had something to write home about. The bosom was not only seen, said one, but "almost heard," and the staid New York Herald Tribune found the new neckline "positively clinical...
...cape. "Ah, Mervyn," said one friend, "incognito, I see." Shortly after young Prince Charles, 14, was caught drinking cherry brandy in a hotel bar in Scotland last month, Bishop Stockwood was introduced to a parishioner's son at a sherry party on the lawn of a rather staid Surrey rectory. Jovially, he asked the boy: "Have you had your cherry brandy today...