Word: whims
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...step down by the end of 1963, when he will have ruled West Germany for twelve straight years. Unkindest cut of all was a 16-page, four-year contract by which the Free Democrats, painfully aware that any less formal deal with Adenauer is subject to cancellation at whim, ensured that their key policies will be binding on the coalition...
...such activities as golf and bowling, whose adherents require standing symbols of victory over one another; Manhattan's Tiffany & Co., for example, sells a sterling-silver-headed putter ($140) as a "presentation piece." But a sizable chunk of new orders for cups, plaques and statuettes is pure whim-and sometimes pure, if harmless, bunk. One man ordered a dog-show trophy, which he donated as an award for a rare breed; his dog won it only because the dog was the only rare breed in the show. In San Diego, a girl bought a beauty contest trophy...
...trade, the aspiring major-league umpire must serve a lengthy minor-league apprenticeship (average duration: five to seven years), pass an exhaustive, FBI-type security check. Even after arrival in the majors, an umpire's tenure is chronically insecure: he can be optioned, traded or fired, sometimes on whim...
...newspapers. Russian dogs don't show affection, but they are all engineers." Getting around to women, he reached for a rare pun, said: "Women are getting more and more materialistic, always looking for security. They are saying, 'This is the way the world ends, not with a whim but a banker...
Almost on a whim, Larry Ropaher, Ous Schumacher, Don Kirkland, and Fred Howard decided to go in the Whittinsville meet. They were somewhat surprised when Tom Biodgett, who was supposed to the flat on his book in a hospital, showed up in the midst of the proceedings...