Word: umpteen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...House was not so much interested in the fact that Powell had been a brazen junketeer at public expense, billed the Government for umpteen trips to his beach home in Puerto Rico, put his wife on a $13,000 secretarial salary, and sharply increased the spending of the Education and Labor Committee, of which he is chairman. What really bugged the boys was Powell's defense-he insisted that he had only done "what every Congressman does," and he castigated his critics as being anti-Negro...
Several dosen students spent most of Saturday assembling umpteen-hundred rods into a complex architectural structure which will enclose the Leverett House Arts festival. In addition to the persons who organized the project and saw it completely through, an even greater number dropped by for an hour or two's work during the day. Not only did the project provide a welcome reminder that Harvard still has plenty of students willing to spend time on a constructive, community project, it also drew the graduate students, tutors, and undergraduates who participated into a refreshingly cohesive collection...
There is youth in Italy: Troy Donahue, 25, the puppy love of umpteen-agers, who is obviously growing with experience (particularly in the paunch...
...often a bore at the microphone. "Too many businessmen cannot give a speech; they have to make an address," says Chicago Executives' Club President Clint Youle, who has heard hundreds of them. "They speak on subjects so lofty they cannot say anything that has not been said umpteen times before." Furthermore, says one Florida executive, many businessmen are barely articulate, mumble in meaningless cliches (some favorites: "broadly defined policies," "hitting the mark foursquare"), talk only to each other, and say only what they want to hear, "as if they were living in some kind of ghetto...