Word: used
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...mixture will slow the economy too abruptly, and second, whether there is reserve power to be applied in mid-1969 when, projections indicate, the economy will need to be revved up again. The situation, said Warren Smith, the CEA's newest member, "calls for a very sophisticated use of fiscal and monetary policy that has never been attempted before...
...hires Lawyer-Pilot F. Lee Bailey as general counsel, announced that it would start playing everything by the book-a set of rules that controllers often ignore. By spacing planes four miles apart instead of the usual three, the controllers managed to slow traffic by 30%. Because private planes use up only half a runway, controllers usually allow them to land simultaneously with a jet on intersecting runways, a practice forbidden by the FAA. The old rule went back into effect...
...home "huffin' butts and goin' to parties." But they had learned the advantages of cooperation and shared work. Each night the boys helped to dig the latrine or cook the chow; everyone put up tents. The kids did most of the planning too-wrote for permission to use recreational facilities, estimated provisions, got clothes ready. On the trip, there were warm receptions in river towns by the mayor or a police escort-a welcome change from being rousted by police back home...
...America is endlessly accommodating, verbally, in the matter of race. Southern politicians are learning to say "Negro" when they mean "nigger," and Northern liberals are careful now to say "black" when they mean "Negro." (That's because blacks have begun saying "Negro" when they mean "sellout.") Opportunities to use these terms do not occur every day, but whites keep in practice just in case...
...characters sound intriguing. There is a rich, young widow, Marie Forbes, who yearns to do good by performing positive actions; she starts on her career "quite purposefully" killing her swinish husband with a heart attack -resulting presumably from sexual exertion. The author builds her characterization by having her use foul language as often as possible. But as Mark Twain once remarked of his wife's swearing, "she has the words but not the tune...