Word: superealism
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...They moved the ball better than any team we've seen this year," he continued. "They played good defense, and showed us a super offense. Penn has five or six really outstanding players--the kind we're trying to develop here...
...Small towns are super if you are a hard-working woman and hope to make as much as $80 a week as a clerk or secretary, if you want to see your children grow up to be uneducated fools, if you like cesspools, if you like to take your own garbage to the dump and if you like to go to the public library and find that all three books have been checked...
Sweden's super-stiff taxes for the self-employed are the result of a strategy of Prime Minister Olof Palme's Social Democratic Party to build popularity in an election year. The Social Democrats only barely prevailed in the 1973 elections, and Palme faces another severe test at the polls in September. In a cunning bid to woo the country's 3 million blue-and white-collar wage earners Palme decided to make companies and self-employed citizens shoulder the soaring cost of Sweden's cradle-to-grave social programs. At the same time, wage earners...
...chaos in baseball: the mass breakaway of players who as free agents would sell their services to the highest bidders, raising superstar salaries out of sight and tilting the competitive balance of the leagues to the clubs with the most money. Oakland Slugger Reggie Jackson, for one, seemed a super star likely to put himself on the open market. To add fuel to the fears, Los Angeles Dodger Pitcher Andy Messersmith, armed with his December arbitration victory, began entertaining bids last week from at least four teams. Nonetheless, the owners finally "bit the bullet," said American League President Lee MacPhail...
...primaries will end with a Democratic super bowl on June 8, when 540 delegates will be up for grabs in New Jersey, Ohio and California. The candidates expect to make an all-out effort in them. But their chances of winning California's important contest for 280 delegates faded when popular Governor Jerry Brown announced last week that he will run as a favorite son. He dodged questions about whether he will enter other primaries. Asked if he really wants to be President, he said, "Yes." What about Vice President? "Premature," said Brown. His entry further scrambled the Democratic...