Word: winner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Frustration of American politics is that it's impossible to get the feeling that the vote you cast made a difference. The only gratification you can get is in having voted for the winner, in which case you feel good for having spotted the "best" candidate back when the result was still in doubt...
...tiny, neoclassic Chapel of Panayitsa (the Little Virgin). The centuries-old ritual was prescribed by Greek Orthodox tradition. The wedding ceremony called for the couple to walk around the altar three times; bride and groom traditionally try to be the first to step on the other's feet (the winner is then able to claim supremacy in the household). Man and wife are crowned with wreaths and drink from a cup of wine in order to symbolize the "harmony of soul and bodies." Everything, from sugared almonds to the waiting yacht, was ready to celebrate the new life...
...troops do not seem to mind the harshness of the command; they follow Steiner because they believe he is a winner and because he has juju (good luck). Thus Steiner has had no trouble refilling the depleted ranks of the Fourth at this late stage in the conflict. Guerrilla warfare may be the way out, he thinks. "If the towns are taken, we will go into the bush," he says. "We could do the job. But we must have weapons. We don't need armor. We need trucks. We don't need much air. But spotter planes would...
...company dominates the color-TV market, largely because of a $150 million investment back in the 1950s in a color system that has since been adopted throughout the U.S. An equally ambitious venture in the computer field, notably the company's Spectra 70 series, looks like a winner after a shaky start. NBC meanwhile, goes on setting one new sales record after another-even though it still ranks slightly behind CBS in the TV viewer ratings...
...salesman named Mr. Blue, who will perform 50 push-ups at the drop of a hint. The narrative ramblings, like a drunk's broken-field running, occasionally lose the reader in a muddiness of form. But they are part of the mad scramble that eventually makes Exley the winner his protagonist was so desperate...