Word: touting
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...assistant general manager of the Mart; he wed the boss's daughter in 1953, and they settled down in a 14-room duplex. Shriver's energetic involvement in local affairs, most notably as president of the Chicago board of education for five years, prompted some pols to tout him as a promising candidate for the 1964 Illinois gubernatorial race. Chicago Mayor Richard Daley, however, dashed Shriver's hopes when he let it be known that he was supporting the Democratic incumbent, Otto Kerner. It was the first of Shriver's several disappointing attempts...
...taboo: never openly knock a competitor's product. Indeed, ads that named a rival product were long banned at the American Broadcasting Co. and the Columbia Broadcasting System. The National Broadcasting Co. permitted the practice in recent years, but few advertisers dared use it. Admen who wanted to tout their clients' goods in a comparative way referred to the competition in tippy-toe "Brand X" allusions. Then in March, the Federal Trade Commission, as part of its drive to improve advertising practices, prodded ABC and CBS to allow commercials that named rival brands...
...main ritual is conducted every month when the moon is full. If the ceremony is indoors, it is conducted "sky-clad"?in the nude. It begins with a dance, men and women rotating in a circle facing out. "Thout-tout-a-tout-tout," they sing, "throughout and about." The men put their weight only on the toes of their left feet, which gives them a hobbling gait. At a certain moment, the priestess breaks free and guides the others inward in a spiral. When she gets to the center, she kisses the man next to her and begins...
...voter potential and pitched their campaigns accordingly. George Griffiths, 42, a Lansing junior high school teacher and George Colburn, 33, an analyst for the Michigan legislature, appeared frequently on campus and plugged away for "participatory democracy at all levels." They also drew heavily on 300 mostly student volunteers to tout their message. Neither they nor any of the other candidates ran with party affiliation or identification...
...used to be that reading the Advocate was an exercise in awe and disappointment. It had a bigger reputation than it could live up to partly because Advocate editors liked to tout the names of former contributors who escaped undergraduate awkwardness and secured niches in various literary pantheons. At times the magazine seemed a testing ground for the efforts of cliquish students who aspired--under the direction of Robert Lowell--toward the techniques of Pound and Eliot. At best much of the material printed was imposingly academic in the Pound-Eliot tradition--and all too often, doctrinaire in approach...