Word: timbuktu
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...prices inspired the money-poor but materials-rich nations of the Southern Hemisphere to pump up prices for commodities as disparate as copper, tin, rubber, jute, cotton, bauxite, coffee, cocoa, tea, sugar. Instant communications-TV and transistor radios-spread the message of the good life. People in Timbuktu no less than in Toledo demanded more-more than society could reasonably produce. Communication, education and sophistication enabled the world in the 1970s to virtually defeat smallpox-and helped make just about every country fall victim to inflation...
...some news and even more trivia, and the four new typographically wretched strike papers are throbbing with wire-service copy that the regular dailies would have spurned. But for New Yorkers used to the Daily News's outrageously witty headlines, the Times's impeccably orotund dispatches from Ouagadougou and Timbuktu and the Post's wonderfully inaccurate gossip, there is an aching void. "They're like children," says Political Consultant David Garth of the three struck dailies. "You don't know how much you love them until they leave home...
...Leonid Brezhnev wants to reach such an agreement, and his time is running short. They also think the Russians are as uneasy as either the Americans or the British themselves would be at the thought of being drawn into an African military quagmire, be it in Shaba, Eritrea or Timbuktu...
...TIMBUKTU...
Almost everyone has heard of zero population growth and zero-base budgeting. To judge by last month's On the Twentieth Century and last week's Timbuktu! Broadway is rapidly nearing ZQM-zero quality musicals...