Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...nuclear-powered submarine in Groton, Conn., two weeks ago, Rhode Island's Democratic Senator John Pastore, chairman of the Joint Atomic Energy Committee, warned ominously, "With all our offensive power, our defense posture could be our Achilles' heel." Washington's Democratic Senator Henry M. Jackson leaked word that he would hold hearings on the ABM-and Lyndon Johnson was aware that they would pack plenty of political megatonnage. Richard Nixon called on the Administration to "go ahead at all costs" with an anti-missile system. This pressure-plus the gnawing fear that the U.S. might be underestimating...
...President's last hope is for a change of heart by Mills. So far, however, the chairman has had scarcely a kind word for the bill. Apart from the political hazards of voting an unpopular new tax, the Arkansan is innately skeptical of economic prognosticators and-despite the almost-unanimous verdict of his witnesses-far from persuaded by their predictions of an inflationary spiral. On the contrary, Mills fears that added taxes may have the opposite effect of stifling growth. And he is unconvinced that $6 billion raised by the surtax can make a real dent in the deficit...
...lose ambition because you have fulfillment. There are things that happen inside. I'm not a psychiatrist or a psychologist. I can't analyze it for you exactly. But I just don't have the ambition or the need or inner drive-or whatever the word is-to get in again. I've never been happier or more relaxed or getting more enjoyment or satisfaction out of what I'm doing...
FOUR-LETTER WORD GAMES by Renatus Hartogs with Hans Fantal. 186 pages. Evans...
Vassar Vulgarity. Dr. Hartogs had to suffer another traumatic experience before he could explain all about the mechanic, the wheel and the word. The impetus was the 1959 federal court decision that D. H. Lawrence's Lady Chatterley's Lover was not obscene. Later that week, at a "fairly fashionable party" on Long Island (a place he should obviously avoid), Dr. Hartogs heard that word again-not from a greasy mechanic, but from the lips of a "splendidly groomed and passably pretty specimen of suburban femininity," who uttered "a string of barracks words paraded with a crisp Vassar...