Word: boom
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...final, Professor Crumgold dropped no hints whatsoever, allowing his pupils to expect a repeat of the hourly. The boom was lowered, however, when Crumgold's assistant and grader. Father O'Malley, distributed the six-page exam with its three dozen identifications all drawn from the lectures. Dr. Crumgold allowed the good priest full leeway as to the grading, with the result that every student passed; not one walked away from that course indifferent to the dangers of overconfidence...
PAPERS. This was old P. Bender Bartlett's specialty, and the Bartlett Boom remains standard. Although many variations are permitted, it was the master's own strategy to assign one two-page and one thirty-page paper each term. He criticized the two-pager in great detail, and marked it stiffly; thus students were driven to invest a good deal of time into the thirty-pager-only to get it back ungraded, with the comment, " I don't think one can measure an effort of this sort by a number or letter...
...except Britain, and in most of the smaller ones, are climbing more rapidly than in 1968; in most countries the rise also exceeds the 1958-68 annual average. In its most recent assessment of the economic outlook, the Common Market commission called for "urgent" steps to bring the "unmistakable boom" under control...
Despite these limitations, Rumor collected an impressive 25-man cabinet that includes some competent former ministers and new faces from all eight fac tions of the Christian Democrats. For mer Premier Aldo Moro (1963-68) is Foreign Minister. Emilio Colombo, one of the architects of Il Boom, Italy's continuing prosperity, remains in his old job at the Treasury. Leftist Carlo Donat-Cattin, a newcomer to the Cabinet who favors increased cooperation with the Communist Party, is Labor Minister. Rumor has the promise of the Socialists that they will help him pass several reform bills, including one to modernize...
Within two weeks after set sail the London Sunday Times's round-the-world yacht race last October, Donald Crowhurst's 41 -foot trimaran, the Teign-mouth Electron, had started falling apart. The lacing on the boom snapped, the port forward hatch sprang a leak, and then his generator went out, leaving him without electricity for three days. While his boat disintegrated with the pounding of heavy seas, the sailor's sanity, strained as it was by the loneliness of the solo odyssey and haunted by the specter of fail ure, also began to fall apart...