Word: velveeta
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Seated behind a pile of groceries and waving a package of Velveeta as she talked, Mrs. Gladys Aponte, a Puerto Rican who heads a consumer group in Brooklyn's bleak Bedford-Stuyvesant district, told of the results of two days of comparison shopping a fortnight ago. On every one of 20 standard items, she said, prices were higher in Bedford- Stuyvesant than they were in nearby Flatbush, a middle-class area; totaled up, the difference was as much as $1. Making the arithmetic even more onerous is the fact that people in the slums spend...
...youths who exchange jazz tapes in Moscow cafeterias. It is responsible for the aching shoulders of bowling-alley patrons on six continents, for the new tendency of Iranian pilots to name their children Mark or David or Joe instead of Reza or Parviz or Taghi, for the popularity of Velveeta cheese in Germany, Kellogg's cornflakes in England and the ubiquitous hotto doggu in Japan...