Word: successful
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Last April, Carter called and told Kirbo that the primary schedule was killing him; he was often hurtling breakneck six days a week. Kirbo, in his easy way, saw to it that the schedulers let up on him. A few weeks ago, with success assured, some of Carter's top staff people came to Kirbo, worried. They told him they thought the candidate was acting too cocky and asked him to speak to Jimmy...
...success prompted the introduction after World War II of a host of similar chlorine derivatives, including chlordane, heptachlor, aldrin, dieldrin, toxaphene and endrin. Wartime research on nerve gases also led to the development of a whole family of phosphorus-based insecticides, such as parathion, malathion and dimethoate, which, unlike DDT and other chlorine-based compounds, tended to break down more quickly into innocuous substances in the soil...
...treadmill, entomologists are advocating a different approach to pest control. They no longer speak of eradicating insect species: the costs both in dollars and environmental side effects are simply too great, the chances of success too small. What they are after instead is what George Georghiou of the University of California at Riverside calls a Mexican standoff, in which insect depredations could be kept small enough to be acceptable economically...
...hospital; or sweet-talking - silently, of course - an extravagantly campy sex bomb (Bernadette Peters) into joining the cause. Under scrutiny this premise may not be quite enough. Silent Movie could have used the sort of unifyingly insane notion that made Brooks' The Producers memorable: make a success by mounting the most miserable failure you can find...
...sales of his novel The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit, tailors sought him out and begged him to accept, gratis, suits of fine gray flannel. Wilson's book had already confirmed what everybody knew-that the gray flannel suit had become the uniform of some sort of success in a tall building in New York. Wilson felt that to wear one would be to indulge in ridiculous self-advertisement. It says something about the careful, rather unimaginative Wilson, as well as about the doleful plumage of the period, that when he finally did pick a free suit...