Word: chip
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Blue-chip" stocks, which had taken a heavy beating, led the rally that began shortly after noon yesterday. As buyers took over the market from sellers, 14.75 million shares changed hands. (On Monday, 9.35 million shares were sold...
...from school. Slowly, the people of the town realize that the birds have declared war on them. Soon dark flights sweep down everywhere, pecking the helpless to death-and corpses soon become skeletons. Great winged armies form-crows, hawks, seagulls, ravens, eagles, finches, starlings. The birds swoop down chimneys, chip through windows, even doors, whipping every corner with angry wings. There is nowhere to hide. No one is safe...
Every decade has its new chair. In the '30s people perched in the plywood Alvar Aalto chair; in the '40s it was Charles Eames's Potato Chip; the '50s sought refuge in the Womb Chair of Eero Saarinen. But the chosen chair of the '60s is not new at all; the Thonet (pronounced Tonay) bentwood has been around for more than 100 years...
Leading the pack in both directions was International Business Machines, the glamour blue chip that some Wall Streeters claim is "not a stock but a religion." IBM opened the week with a spectacular 31½ drop to $454, and the following day-apparently because of an extraordinary number of stop-loss orders-fell another 24 points with such rapidity that trading in the stock was suspended three times. But before the market closed, bargain hunters moved in and drove IBM shares back up 32 points to $462. By the end of the week, successive rallies had boosted the price...
...time Palmer reached the 16th hole at Augusta last week, his cause finally seemed hopeless: he needed two birdies merely to stay alive for a three-way play-off with Player and Finsterwald. Then, at the 16th green, Palmer got his miracle: he pitched a 50-yd. chip into the cup for a birdie. Keyed up now, he stepped up to a null putt on the 17th -and banged it straight into the hole for his second straight birdie. On the 18th green, both Player and Palmer played cautiously for pars, solemnly shook hands and-the tension broken-began...