Word: transistorized
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...should not be possible for the following thing to happen, but it did, Outside my lecture room in the Cohen Library of City College, New York. I was attempting to explain something privately to a girl student. Two young negresses (or female blacks) were sitting by, loudly playing a transistor radio, I politely asked them to turn the thing off and was told obscenely to turn myself off... I did nothing. I failed in authority. But everybody is falling in authority. The substitute for authority is acquiesence in the face of youth; that at least sometimes secures a tolerant hearing...
...advertising. Frank Gibney, the author of a forthcoming book, Japan, The Fragile Superpower, wrote recently that "the Japanese continue to maintain that a good Japanese can outsell Americans, outplan Frenchmen and Germans, and even 'handle' the Chinese." But the time for a philosophy of Mom, apple pie, and the transistor radio next door is gone. Japan is suffering from foreign economic pressures and its future is bleak, even on the everconsuming American market...
...clearly aimed toward P.L.O. supporters in the Arab world, where the speech was beamed by satellite. Not since the heyday of the late Gamal Abdel Nasser of Egypt had any speech been so eagerly awaited. On the streets of Beirut and Cairo, people gathered round anyone carrying a transistor radio to listen in. In the refugee camps of Beirut, Sidon and Tripoli, a holiday was declared; schools were closed, and employees of the U.N. refugee agency took...
...crewman toots. That gives the women time to get out to the track with two bags of cookies - one for the men on the engine, the other for the two in the caboose. In return, the crews drop off newspapers, magazines and books. They have given the widows a transistor radio and a television set, and often bring their families up to visit on their days off. Last Christ mas, the 42 crewmen who had passed through during the year collected $110 to supplement the widows' combined pension of $50 a week. "Since I was a lit tle girl...
...bikinis are rampant out here today..." The voice of color man Hoyt boomed from the transistor radios aboard the Vigilant as the people began moving to the port rail to watch the combatants circle the starting line awaiting the gun, which would signal ten minutes to the start of crucial race number three...