Word: crash
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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With a POP and a crash, the world's most prestigious and powerful university ground to a halt Saturday morning, as President Derek Bok hobbled painfully to the sideline...
With a POP a crash, the world's most prestigious and powerful university ground to a halt this morning, as President Derek Bok hobbled painfully to the sidelines...
...labor of excavation itself proved, in varying degrees, exciting to diggers, although novices exported romantic notions about archeology which the dig pitilessly disillusioned. Every volunteer was instructed by his site supervisor in a crash course about field methods, and learned to dig by trial and error. Field work was really manual labor. At one site during the final season, diggers pick-axed for nine hours through modern street pavement and bedrock every day before they could begin the usual troweling, which was far less tiring, but more painstaking work. To dig well required patience and exactitude, imagination and endurance...
Fistfight. His wanderings took him as far as Kashmir. If he lacked Hemingway's stature, he had gathered a certain amount of tragic experience to draw on. His second wife Claire, whom he had met on Ibiza, died in a car crash in Monterey, Calif., in the late '50s, when she was eight months pregnant. The wife of Novelist Dennis Murphy was also killed in the crash, and Irving, who had often been unfaithful to Claire, had a drunken fistfight with Murphy over who was to blame for the accident...
...bonds, government securities were bringing a fraction of their value. It was the worst possible time to sell any securities, but I cleaned out the portfolio to finance his moviemaking. I particularly remember a line of Australian government bonds, for which we had paid a premium prior to the crash. I sold them off at $38, barely more than a third of their par value...