Word: tides
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...keens, gurgles, fumes and screams at her all-but-silent partner. A bottomless black shopping bag provides the day's events. Finding a toothbrush, she brushes her teeth punctiliously. She swigs some pink pep medicine, kisses an evilly glinting revolver and dons a perkily feathered hat. "These things tide one over," she says. Her talkfest acquires a haunting reflective cadence as it flows between the vapid ("Keep yourself nice, Winnie, that's what I always say") and the apocalyptic ("Do you think the earth has lost its atmosphere, Willie?"). The falling curtain leaves her with plenty...
...Tide's In. Next to being actually tied to the railroad tracks, there is nothing like a stereophonic recording to give a person that run-down feeling. But stereo's well-known gift for superrealism has made astonishing inroads with the music-loving public as well as thrill seekers in the past three years...
...Chrysler models have lost their once-lofty fins. The new Imperials have a sharp, straight rear fender line, the Chryslers a more rakish one that blends into a tapered rear deck. Chrysler's two handsome compacts, Valiant and Lancer, remain essentially unchanged, but each, following the 1962 tide, has acquired a bucket-seated, pizazz version: the Valiant Signet and Lancer Gran Turismo...
...Mood. Backed up by a tide of approving mail from across the nation, Mitchell was in no mood to back down. When Newburgh's own welfare director admitted that he, too, thought the code illegal, Mitchell and the city council forced his resignation, appointed a more pliable acting commissioner, ordered a departmental shakeup. Mitchell denounced investigating state-welfare officials as "Gestapo agents," and fortnight ago he put his code into effect. Last week he carried his fight to Washington, and waded deep into the choppy waters of Republican politics...
...since the 1953 East German uprising had the tide of refugees from Communism reached such flood proportions. In a week, the grey procession of escapees showing up at registration centers in West Berlin and West Germany leaped from the normal 500 a day to almost 1,500. At the big Marienfelde refugee barracks, the registration clerks were swamped, and West Berlin authorities had to charter extra planes to haul the escapees out to the West. One reason was the new food shortage in East Germany, which had brought tighter rationing of potatoes and butter, new crackdowns by Red Boss Walter...