Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final, frenetic days before H-day (after höger, the Swedish word for right), the new system was explained in the press, demonstrated on film, discussed on radio and TV, and extolled by singing commercials. Stockholm's N.K. department store reported a run on men's shorts emblazoned with a big H, and milk containers sprouted slogans such as "Smile a little in the right-hand traffic. We are all beginners...
...this case were the dozen or so illegal radio stations that for the past three years have been beaming pop music into the British Isles from makeshift studios on rusty ferries, minesweepers, freighters and abandoned World War II antiaircraft towers just outside the three-mile limit. True to his word, Short last month helped push a piece of legislation through Parliament which, by making it a criminal offense to supply advertising, food or ships to the outlaw stations, successfully torpedoed the pirate fleet. A bloody catastrophe, wailed many of the 20 million listeners who each week tuned in to hear...
Freelance. The word derives from footloose knights willing to defend any castle for a fee, and it still rings romantically. Today's deskbound journalist dreams of breaking the shackles, telling off the boss, and striking out on his own. He will decide what to write, how to write it and when to write it. Freed from the confines of a newspaper or magazine, he will fulfill the creativity he has so long suppressed as an organization...
Dwindling Market. "A common mistake many young writers make," says Emily Jacobson, a Manhattan-based writers' agent, "is to leave their institutional connections, flushed with success. But with the arduous apprenticeship and the pressure riding on every word, it's often a total disaster...
...industry in general. Since January, steelmen have been boosting prices in bits and pieces-in tubing, then tin plate for can making, followed by hot-rolled carbon and alloy plates-with only a whimper from Washington. Not until just before the Labor Day weekend, when Republic Steel dropped word of new prices in steel bars, did the Administration react. Ackley condemned the move, professing a belated astonishment at the fact that higher prices have already been chalked up "for nearly half the steel tonnage produced in this country," and a flock of telegrams urged other producers not to follow Republic...