Word: cons
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...couch but on "the Shelf"-jailbird slang for the solitary-confinement cells at San Quentin prison. Before he was 21, Sands was serving time on three convictions for armed robbery, with sentences in each of from one year to life, and had won a reputation as a con so "solid" that not even brutal beatings by guards could bend him to prison rules...
...almost constant self-doubt. For 30 years, the man who first said that "politics is the art of the possible" manipulated the events of a continent simply because he knew how to manipulate people. The Iron Chancellor, in Richter's view, was one of history's nimblest con...
...festival has served as a catalyst-and this is the essential thing, says Lukas Foss, conductor of the Buffalo Philharmonic. "The entire city is talking about it-there are strong comments, pro and con. It is not important what we like or don't like. The question 'Is it art, or isn't it art?' is not as vital as the fact that it is here and we have to know it-this is informative...
...find himself too stiff-muscled to dance. He turned to choreography and in 1948 took over the reins of the San Francisco Ballet from his eldest brother William, who had headed the company for a decade. In all, Lew has created some 70 original ballets, including the frolicsome Con Amore, Jest of Cards, one of dance's most dashing spectacles, and Beauty and the Beast, an exercise in controlled romanticism...
There was a perceptible upgrading of optimism last week, and a growing con viction that U.S. business can roll forward without pause in 1965. The buoyant mood was apparent in Washington, where some of the nation's leading economists, testifying before the Joint Congressional Economic Committee, almost unanimously predicted uninterrupted expansion. The bullish sentiment was obvious on Wall Street, where the stock market rebounded strongly from last month's fall. In the second heaviest trading in more than a year (7,100,000 shares in one day), the Dow-Jones industrial average rose every day, climbing 18 points...