Word: budded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...this exhibition manage at once to personify music with their rhythmic compositions and to feast your eyes with more substantial fare--knotty wood with the nails and lumbermarks still showing. This self-conscious structure belies the seemingly organic and hence (you might have thought) unconscious "growth" of, say, the bud-like forms at the top of La Primavera. This is a tall square column, 9-10 feet tall with cut-out semi-circles of wood interlocked in a restrained yet powerful abstraction of spring. It seems like a plant about to blossom, with tremendous energy beneath the surface...
...labeled "sheep dip," now used by most dining halls. In its place would go coffee similar to that now served at Adams House. While the ground coffee is overwhelmingly more popular than the liquid concentrate, the capital investment for machines and additional labor may nip the proposal in the bud...
...Navy attempted to stage an anti-fascist coup that was nipped in the bud. The 240 officers and men on board the destroyer Velos sought political asylum in Italy and denounced the regime...
Still, there is cause for edginess. As Bud Simons, research chief of Weeden & Co., notes, "We will not get back to 1000 until we get some signs that the economy is improving." There is little chance of that happening, at least in the next few weeks. Thus some brokers now believe that stock prices will continue to slip, dragging the Dow down to a low of 900 or so before Election Day. Indeed, some analysts believe that such a drop might be a healthy correction that would leave the market poised for a new and sustained upward march later...
Other new dramatic serials, notably CBS's Executive Suite, which uses a corporate shelter for exploring the lives of dozens of people and their families employed by one company, also borrow the daytime shows' mode of interweaving multiple plots. Notes Bud Grant, CBS programming chief: "The serial is the most powerful form invented for television. Once you hook an audience, it stays hooked...