Word: tv
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...seemed questionable whether Morse should even try for county prothonotary. Running 2 to 1 behind Duncan, the Senator began taking time out from his antiwar campaign in the Senate for furious fence-mending missions at home. Morse argufied from one Oregon border to another and blanketed the state with TV spots...
...decade of Gaullism, France's workers, particularly the skilled ones who earn an average $195 each month, have enthusiastically entered the consumer economy. Fully 70% of all workers' households have a refrigerator, a washing machine and a vacuum cleaner. Though only 46% of all French families own TV sets, at least six out of ten workers' families are able to set tle down on the canape at night to watch le football matches and the pop-singer contests. More than half of all French workers own a car, and a vacation in Spain or even Greece...
...worker's car and TV set are often bought on credit, a relatively new notion in France and one whose in escapable rhythm of monthly bills has proved a painful education. Wives often must work to make ends meet; workers seldom have any savings to fall back on in times of sudden disablement or job loss; life insurance is virtually unknown...
...then got a job at a factory workbench, but when his fellow workers recognized him, they hounded him until he quit. In fact, the lash of public opinion has been harsher than that of Dubček. The suicides of 29 officials in recent weeks are attributed to TV and press exposés of their past roles in the Stalinist terror...
...twice as long as it is wide, divided down the center by a low partition. Two rows of steel beds run like exposed ribs down each side. At one end is the businesslike nurses' station, a bookcase with a collection of old magazines and paperbacks, a too-loud TV set. There are no flowers, no pictures, no decorations. There are windows all around, but no one bothers to look...