Word: bigs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Meanwhile, Hayes is lecturing his current crop of quality kids on the dangers of getting the big head. " 'Blame is safer than praise,' " he says, quoting Ralph Waldo Emerson, who, along with General William Westmoreland and Richard Nixon, is one of his favorite philosophers. He continues with Emerson: " 'As soon as honeyed words of praise are spoken for me, I feel as one who lies unprotected before his enemies...
Steak is described with double-barreled words: "piping hot," "whopping big," "hand-carved," and "mouth-waterin...
...small scene just underneath the curve of the ceiling between the Prophet Jeremiah and the Sibyl Persica. This triangular picture shows the family of Salmon, one of the ancestors of Jesus. Here, the child leans upon his mother's knee and watches her cutting cloth with a big pair of shears. The pull of the fabric points your eye to something which is happening near by. Glancing up and to the right, you meet with the image in which God the Creator divides Light from Darkness. You are witnessing the same thing in plain domestic terms...
...Soviets took an equally big lead in manned flights. Yuri Gagarin orbited in Vostok I more than a month before Kennedy's 1961 speech, and ten months before the U.S. could place John Glenn in orbit in Mercury 6. Russian cosmonauts also compiled an enviable list of other space records: first woman in orbit, first two-man crew, first three-man crew and first space walk...
...least one thing in common: both men are always alert for the inside tip, the informed gossip that can lead to quick profit. Not surprisingly, stockbrokers often pick up those tips ahead of their customers. And they usually pass the information along to large institutions whose trading pays big commissions. Last week, for just such misuse of inside information, the Securities and Exchange Commission severely penalized the world's biggest brokerage house, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith...