Word: beneath
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When stroke Sheahy was asked in Switzerland what he would do when he found himself again on the line beside Penn or Brown or Navy, he said, "I'm going to wear my medal up to the line and do this." Shealy then whipped out his gold medal from beneath his shirt and, smiling deviously, waved it twice in front of a bystander's face...
...business news continued gloomy. The stock market, which spurted two weeks ago on anticipation of the prune-rate cut, plummeted, reflecting disappointment that Morgan Guaranty's initiative did not take hold more quickly. The Dow Jones industrial average dropped 49 points during the week, to close at 622, beneath the twelve-year low of 627 touched in mid-September. The Commerce Department's "composite index of leading indicators"-those that supposedly give reliable clues to the future direction of the economy -fell 1.2% in August, its biggest monthly drop since December. It is still 5.7% above August...
West German Chancellor Helmut Schmidt stood beneath the federal eagle in Bonn's Bundestag one day recently and vigorously defended his relationship with French President Valery Giscard d'Estaing against an attack by an opposition Deputy. "It's true that we have friendly relations," boomed Schmidt, "but it would be a great mistake to interpret this, as the French press has done, as if it were a tandem. A tandem, the way I understand it, is a bicycle on which two pedal but only one steers...
...biggest risk comes at the end of the first act. One of the few things that excites Carlos sexually is seeing someone burned at the stake; his courtiers obligingly find a heretic. Carlos is aroused; from beneath his twenty-foot high royal robes emerges a golden phallus fully ten feet in diameter which extends across the stage at a stately pace until it reaches from side to side as the court sings Handel's Hallelujah Chorus...
...banks, led by New York's First National City, is sitting on $205 million in credit that the bankers are ready to release to the company if it looks worthy. They have said that they would advance no credit if Pan Am's assets drop beneath $300 million, and with the company dipping into cash reserves to meet operating costs, it is almost certain to fall beneath that line soon. But the Administration steps make Pan Am look like a better risk...