Word: suburbanitis
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...your peace of mind about being a girl." Warner-Lambert executives claim that the multimillion-dollar Pristeen print media campaign is bigger than that for any other new toiletry product in 1969. Pris-teen's chief competitor is FDS (for Feminine Deodorant Spray), a similar product manufactured by suburban Chicago's Alberto-Culver Co., whose advertising is slightly less explicit. Warner-Lambert executives reckon that the new deodorant market will soon be worth around $58 million a year...
...prancing their way past the reviewing stands of judges, who choose the winner. A total of 43 escolas de samba are taking part this year, and the larger ones, like the Estacāo Primeira de Mangueira-last year's champion, named after a stop on a suburban rail line-bring 7,000 participants into their act. While the poor flood into the limelight, the rich and the middle class either leave town or amuse themselves at exclusive balls. Individual tickets for the Municipal Theater Ball, the poshest of them all, run to $50, a box for eight...
...Chang dashed outside, where he saw a crowd by the cesspool beside the public toilet, and a peasant lying on the ground, his face blue, no longer breathing. These people were members of a production brigade of one of Dairen's suburban communes, who had heeded Chairman Mao's great call to grasp revolution and boost production, and had come into the city to collect manure...
Miller retreated to his 160-acre farm in suburban Barrington with his third wife, Nola. He claimed that the "traumatic shock" had caused him to lose 26 lbs. in two weeks, and sued WIND for $5,000,000 for "trying to kill me as a performer." The suit was settled out of court in August. To the surprise of many of his listeners, Miller then joined liberal-leaning WCFL, a station owned by the Chicago Federation of Labor. Explained Station Manager Lou Witz: "We feel a conflict of opinions gives more interest to the station...
...cozy suburban homes, The Call relieves a lot of anxieties. Many highschoolers have gone to bed or left for parties without doing any school-work, taking the calculated gamble that they will not have to show up in school the next day. Sometimes the smudging call doesn't come through, and frantic students have to dig by spontaneous excuses to get out of tests. But as soon as The Call comes, academic worries are behind and it's time to head for the groves...