Word: supermarketeer
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...pidgin French-English that has flooded la belle langue with U.S. neologisms. French newspapers speak of call-girls, cliff-dwellers, containment, fairways, missile-gaps, uppercuts. French sociologists analyze le melting-pot, out-groups, ego-involvement. French business roils with words like boom, le boss, fifty-fifty, soft-approach and supermarket...
...sets to watch a video tape of the horse races at St. Petersburg's Sunshine Park. Their object is not to collect on a $2 bet but to match the numbers of the winning horses with numbers on cards that they picked up at their local National Food supermarket. The prizes are trading stamps-1,000 for a win, 500 for a place, 100 for a show...
...bring in that trophy for the game room. The bungalow that rented for $30 a month brings as much as $250, and a one-bedroom house on the fashionable hillside called "Gringo Gulch" goes for at least $10,000-still a bargain by Acapulco standards. There is neon, a supermarket, a nightclub. The new Posada
...condition of Patrolman Edward C. Callahan, 36, father of two, was listed as critical even before the famed neurosurgeons at Massachusetts General Hospital had fully assessed the damage to his brain. Callahan had been shot in the head while trying to stop a holdup at a suburban Boston supermarket, and his fight for life mounted into agonizing suspense-not only for his family and for the surgeons who were caring for him but for another family and for other surgeons in another hospital on the other side of town...
They are now widely used to check on the consumer's buying habits (the average supermarket shopper spends $13.10 on 22 items each time she enters the store), are pressed into service by oil companies to locate likely areas to drill, and can tell the Navy weather conditions surrounding almost any ship on the ocean. Stanford is using a Burroughs model to try to establish a scientific basis for foreign policy by measuring international tensions and the reactions of world leaders to current events. Georgia Tech assigns football seats for old grads strictly on a computer's reading...