Word: successful
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...category of psychopathology typically characterized by excessive vanity, complete disregard for the feelings or safety of others, a lack of loyalty either to cause or friends, either to the principles of humanity or to the established code of ethics, and a conspicuousness of achievement at times passing for success under circumstances where ruthlessness and boldness are to some advantage...
...parents, at least, the marriage of Maria Hester Monroe was a huge success. That first wedding of a U.S. President's daughter in 1820 was confined so closely to the family that the ceremony was attended by only 42 guests and reported by the Washington press in 34 words. Subsequent White House brides from Elizabeth Tyler in 1842 to "Princess" Alice Roosevelt-who envisaged a "comparatively quiet family affair" and wound up with 1,000 guests in 1906-have sought with diminishing success to elude the tidal wave of publicity that inevitably engulfs a First Family wedding...
...often armed with a tin cup and either a guitar or colored chalks to wrest pennies for wine and smokes from sidewalk patrons. Britons, who tend to consider eccentrics national assets, regard their beatniks with tolerant amusement. Charles de Gaulle's police have been trying, with scant success, to shoo them out of newly scrubbed Paris. Chancellor Ludwig Erhard is truly outraged, for the happy-go-lucky Gammler, as they are known in West Germany, are an insult to the image of neat, tidy, hard-working Germans...
...professional golf, the way to a man's success appears to be through his stomach. Gary Player will go on for hours about the nutritive values of raisins. Jack Nicklaus dotes on oysters, consuming as many as six dozen at a sitting. Billy Casper, the year's top money winner ($81,515 so far) swears by a diet of buffalo steak and mooseburger. Last week at Akron's Firestone Country Club, Al Geiberger, 28, won the big gest prize of his seven-year pro career -the $25,000 P.G.A. championship - and announced that he owed...
...arrived in 1955, determined to make a name for himself amid the sophisticates of European racing, Brabham had more lead in his foot than skill in his hands. Watching him hurtle recklessly around the track, his fellow drivers would not have given a plugged sixpence for his chances of success-or survival. "The marvelous thing about watching Jack come out of a turn," sighed one at the time, "is that you never know which end of the car will show up first...