Word: bigger
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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boys and girls, watch how the oboist's cheeks puff out when he does the next passage," there will be the oboist, bigger than life, in his pop-cheeked moment of glory...
...doctor's office with a sore throat, swelling on one side of his face and neck, and enlarged lymph glands. The boy recovered in a couple of days without treatment. Next came his three-month-old baby brother, also suffering from a swollen neck, fever, and a lump bigger than a golf ball at the base of his neck. The baby had apparently never been scratched by the family kitten, but Dr. Snyder concluded that the lump in his neck was his thymus gland, swollen by a cat-scratch infection that had probably penetrated the skin through a rash...
They lost their first nine games, and went on to even bigger things. Now they were deep in the cellar, 23½ games off the pace, and they had just run up a 17-game losing streak-the worst record of any team in New York history. But after a hiatus of four years, National League baseball was back in the big city, and the fumbling, bumbling New York Mets were the sensation of the 1962 season. For whatever perverse reasons, the fans were wild about them...
Reluctant Research. New-product research was long neglected by the papermakers, largely because of what Chairman Thomas McCabe of Scott Paper Co. terms "complacency generated by the belief that paper was irreplaceable." Even now, though the bigger paper companies have quadrupled their spending on research in the last decade, the industry's R. & D. outlay is only 0.5% of sales, v. 3% for U.S. business as a whole...
...frantic sell-off on the London Stock Exchange was even bigger (6.4%) than the famous one in 1938, just before Hitler delivered his ultimatum to Czechoslovakia (5.4%). From amidst the rubble, Stock Exchange Chairman Lord Ritchie advised small investors "to put their heads down and let the wind blow over them...