Word: bawl
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...well under half of today's 11 ½%-11¾% range. Only about a year ago, when major banks raised the prime by half a percentage point, to 6¾%. Federal Reserve Chairman Arthur Burns summoned the country's top bankers to Washington for a stern bawl-ing-out and succeeded in getting the increase partially rolled back...
Readers who may have wondered ever since freshman English what it feels like to have an arm torn off by Beowulf in Hrothgar's meadhall can now relax. It hurts like the devil. "I bawl like a baby. I am slick with blood," cries Grendel in this splendid fiend's-eye view of an Anglo-Saxon epic. "My heart booms with terror." Yet as Novelist John Gardner retells the story, much of Grendel's pain is pure philosophical chagrin...