Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third race, Ford was sailing on the downwind leg of the course when a sudden shift in the wind direction caused the sail to jibe accidentally. The main boom swung across, carrying both Horn (acting as downwind boomvang) and Drake with it. Pring just managed to place himself in their path and block them from plummeting over the boat's rail...
Curiosity Can Kill. In Los Angeles, and many other cities, "survival stores" have been doing a boom business selling shelter supplies. Shelter Equipment Corp., a Denver enterprise, is operated by Rolf M. Weber and John Scott, both German immigrants and veterans of the World War II air raids over Berlin and Hamburg. When their store opened officially last week, its shelves had already been swept clean by customers who had attended a two-hour preview the previous weekend. "The sandbags are a must," says Weber. "We are also recommending periscopes. Lots of Germans were killed when their curiosity...
...recent years, the Civil War has become almost a minor industry in itself within the book trade. One historian after another has trampled out his own vintage from the fabled grapes of wrath. The boom dates roughly from 1934 and Douglas Southall Freeman's R. E. Lee; it picked up momentum in 1942 with Freeman's Lee's Lieutenants (which still sells thousands of copies a year), and has been surging ever since. In 1961. the Civil War's 100th anniversary year, more than 250 Civil War books have been published, and even the most trivial...
...Yankees are undoubtedly the strongest-hitting Yankee team since 1939 -when Joe DiMaggio, Charley Keller, Bill Dickey & Co. lowered the boom on hapless Cincinnati in the World Series, won in four straight games. Only three players hit over .300-Elston Howard (.353), Mickey Mantle (.317) and Johnny Blanchard (.305)-but Roger Maris slammed a record 61 home runs, Mantle hit 54, and no fewer than six Yankees hit 20 or more. So powerful was the Yanks' new Murderers' Row that First Baseman Bill Skowron (28 homers) found himself batting seventh in the lineup...
...brilliant, courtly central banker, Governor Masamichi Yamagiwa of the Bank of Japan, likes to relax by playing go-a, Japanese war game in which he astounds opponents with his daring, unbankerlike moves. But in recent weeks, torn between the need to cool off Japan's overheated boom (TIME, Sept. 8) and Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda's fear that any belt-tightening would hurt him politically, Yamagiwa, 60, has shown uncharacteristic indecision. Last week he finally hiked Japan's bank rate from 6.935% to 7.3%, the highest of any industrialized nation. Tighter money, Yamagiwa hopes, will discourage...