Word: users
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...print. The media have shown some queasiness over the Pristeen ads. LIFE turned them down, but later relented; by then Pristeen had gone elsewhere. The magazine's executives had been bothered by such phrases in the copy as "worry-making odors" and the assertion that Pristeen makes the user "an attractive nice-to-be-with girl." For a while, television's self-regulatory National Association of Broadcasters stoutly upheld its 15-year-old ban on commercials for "externally applied feminine-hygiene deodorant sprays and powders." Last month, after a temporary six-month suspension of the ban brought...
...baseball cap. Papa is a fat slob in unbuttoned pajamas, who has spent a lifetime dabbling in experimental theater. Mama reminisces over an early tussle for bohemian freedom in which she and Papa made love in the front row of the orchestra during a performance of Tannhäuser. Currently, she sleeps with a grinning Neanderthal manservant named Eddie, while Papa affects not to notice...
Exactly who it is that will take over the center is a problem of definition. Wasps are not so easily characterized as other ethnic groups. The term itself can be merely descriptive or mildly offensive, depending on the user and the hearer; at any rate, it has become part of the American idiom. In one sense, it is redundant: since all Anglo-Saxons are white, the word could be Asp. Purists like to confine Wasps to descendants of the British Isles; less exacting analysts are willing to throw in Scandinavians, Netherlanders and Germans. At the narrowest, Wasps form a select...
...current cost for computer time is $165 per hour. Dix expects that the cost will be doubled or tripled. But the increased speed of processing should mean no added cost for the computer user...
...predicted that there would be additional use of the computer because of "an enormous increase in storage capability." Dix said that the additional revenue from user fees should easily absorb the $70,000 per month leasing cost...