Word: tightness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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From there we go on to all the traditional song-styles of the amateur review -- the sinister tango, the unintelligible patter song, the rock'n'roll parody. The melodies were just not striking enough to break out from their cliches and be heard. Tight, overly simple little tunes, accompanied by only a piano, drums, and a brief, aborted oboe (last year's show had the advantage of a charming flute and steady bass behind the songs), they were too thin to matter much. One song, "What Sort of Man," written by Sharon Stokes, started to move towards a little more...
...support from wherever it occurs." No easy target, Candidate Carr, 48, piled up more votes (1,900,000) in 1964 than any other office seeker in the state's history. All the same, there are some 30,000 to 40,000 hard-core liberal Democratic voters. In a tight race, they could well ditch what they derisively call Connally's "used Carr...
...psych turns up everywhere in the news. Lyndon Johnson's hostile or suspicious behavior is ascribed to his "regional inferiority complex." Russia's inflexibility is attributed to the custom of binding newborn babies tight in swaddling clothes. Charles Whitman's shooting people from the clock tower of the Texas campus is diagnosed as a case of sexual overcompensation (on a phallic tower with a phallic rifle). Stanford Associate English Professor Bruce Franklin notes that "our basic method of fighting in Viet Nam is anal-sadistic. A man in an airplane is in a nonorganic environment, symbolically defecating...
Textiles are also tight. Military demand for textile goods, now more'than $1 billion yearly, has delayed deliveries of fall clothes to shops. Chinos, Dacrons and worsteds are hard to get. Almost all the industry's "duck" cloth is going for tarps and tents. Two weeks ago the Government asked for bids for 1,000,-000 uniforms; the industry submitted bids for only half the total. Many textile men hesitate to compete for Government business, prefer selling to their old, reliable civilian customers, who are less likely to cut back orders without notice and are often willing...
...private enterprise-oriented International Finance Corp., have made a grand total of $11 billion in loans in 20 years. The needs are growing and the resources diminishing. The growth rate of the underdeveloped countries has already fallen from 5% a year in the last decade to 4% now. Tight money, high interest rates, inflation and payments deficits make it harder for the rich countries to lend to the poor...