Word: vet
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...complicated, somewhat contrived, but quite a lot of fun, especially when Ruth tries to elicit some kind of emotional reaction from the impassive Tom--whom she loathes--by telling him of her desire to roll around in the grass at his feet wearing only her glasses. The mild-mannered vet, more concerned with cats than women, remains stoic...
...maker of the New York and Boston bedroom community, menacingly shakes a coffee cup and a lone sock at you and growls, "You don't have problems. You have PROBLEMS. BIG PROBLEMS. And they all MEAN SOMETHING. Every coffee stain on the dining room table, every trip to the vet for the family dog's shots, every play in the Little League baseball game. And I," Updike goes on, "am here to bore into each one with my unrelenting literary jackhammer. I will drill until I hit vast and oceanic symbolism...
...finished reciting four of his six listed reasons why SALT II was a "significant step" towards controlling the arms race when Thomas F. Kelly of Dorchester stood up and began shouting. "I'm a Vietnam vet and I don't have to take this shit anymore..." Brown stepped down from the podium, his face showing no emotion. The crowd of 700 sat in stunned silence while the tirade--a rambling and profane attack on American military policy--continued for about two minutes...
Rents are soaring largely because apartments are growing scarce. In desirable areas of such cities as New York and Los Angeles, the vacancy rate is under 1%, and landlords are using the shortage to vet prospective tenants and refuse those with modest incomes. Finding an apartment requires tramping the streets and often bribing doormen. Reports Norman Kailo, president of the New Jersey Association of Realtors: "Young marrieds are beginning to double up, and there are a lot of illegal conversions of one-family units into two-family...
...view of the Viet Nam vet...