Word: swipes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scandal has been expansive enough to leave room for all kinds of crusades. Senator Thomas Dodd even smuggled in a swipe at the Demon Weed. Must be that Vietnam marijuana, he sagely reasoned, that turned American soldiers, traditionally "well-mannered, loyal, kind to a fault," into maniacs. "Heaven knows," he went on, "we've seen the violence wrought by marijuana here at home." If you've seen photos of Lt. William R. Calley, awaiting trial for the murder of 109 Vietnamese civilians, you can picture the type of salivating addict that Dodd is talking about...
...country's increasing ignorance of Latin was reflected in a question to the panel about media as a singular term and medias as a plural. Taking a swipe at Madison Avenue, Columnist Russell Baker declared: "In Latin, prefer Cicero to BBDO." Asked to rule on erratas as a plural form, Poet Donald Davidson despaired: "To think that we have lived to see the day when such a question can be asked...
...Opening Swipe. Perhaps out of fear of receiving a less than enthusiastic reception in Bucharest, Soviet Party Boss Leonid Brezhnev stayed home. In his place, Moscow sent a delegate of lesser rank: Konstantin Katushev, party secretary in charge of dealing with foreign ruling parties. At 42, Katushev is, nonetheless, a rapidly rising figure in the Kremlin, and he undertook a spirited rebuttal to Ceauşescu the next day. For openers, he took a rather startling swipe at the "perfidious tactics of 'bridge building' to the West." Its only purpose, he said, is "to drive a wedge between...
...also took a swipe at claims that its own gigantic size menaces small businesses. During 1967, said G.M., it paid $9.4 billion, or 47% of its revenues, to 37,000 suppliers, three-quarters of whom employ fewer than 100 people. As for profits, G.M. freely conceded that its return on invested capital has been more consistent than that of other auto manufacturers in recent years. Nevertheless, the company noted that a 1966 Dun & Bradstreet survey found that companies in 19 of 71 categories had a higher return on "tangible net worth" than...
Wallace does not, of course, openly espouse racism, preferring to talk about law and order and let his listeners supply their own villains. Last week he complained that both the Democrats and the Republicans were trying to swipe the issue from him. "I was the first one to speak out on law and order, about a year and a half ago," he said. "Now they usin' our phrase." That is regrettably true, but Wallace can console himself with the knowledge that no one else has ridden the issue with quite the cowboy abandon that...