Word: type
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...always, however, did Young gauge his audience so well. In the process of discounting China's military threat, he said the Chinese navy consisted of "nothing except thousands of junks." The type who laughs compulsively whenever he hears the word "junk" laughed, and Young--apparently encouraged--went on to coin a new phrase--"junks full of Chinks." It was an awkward moment all around. Some hissed; most were pointedly silent and the Ohio Senator had no easy time of it recovering...
...architecture major suggested painting the sculpture purple. An entrepreneur-type offered to trade the sculpture for the statue of John Harvard in front of University Hall...
...looked at a newspaper on an LSD high, he not only saw the object which lay on his doorstep every morning, but also single letters put together to form words, words combined to make phrases; he saw people working hard to write the articles and printers sweating over their type; he saw thousands reading it, ignoring it, or folding it into paper planes...
...some new bond issues to 45-year peaks, prompting investors to sell stocks in order to buy bonds. Last week $40 million of Long Island Lighting Co. bonds went on sale with a 5.13% interest return, one of the highest yields ever placed on a corporate issue of its type. The Federal National Mortgage Association had to pay a record 5.38% to sell $250 million of 14-month debentures. Despite an extraordinarily high 5½% interest, Washington's Export-Import Bank was able to sell only half of a new $700 million issue of participation certificates in existing loans...
Still another type of pollution -- "thermo-pollution" -- threatens the Charles. Thermo-pollution does not present very great dangers to public health, but it does affect the wildlife in the river. It involves the with-drawal of water from the river, its circulation through a plant or building (a process which often raises the water's temperature and changes its oxygen content) and its discharge back into the river. The changed character of the water can mean increased growth of bacteria and algae, as well as death to fish...