Word: crepe
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first beat only accented, gentlemen, so, BAM, bam bam bam." The crepe-soled palomino sport shoes thudded the beat, and the orchestra compliead...
...hindsight. Born early in 1948, it was knocked to its knees by fears of war, the Truman election, the business recession and dozens of other minor frights. By June 1949, when the Dow-Jones industrial average had skidded from 193.16 to 161.60, some market experts officially hung a crepe on the bull. But others insisted that stocks were dirt cheap. Enough investors took their advice to start the market moving upward, even though industrial production was still going down...
...Black crepe and mourning bands hung from every window and door in town. Despite frequent showers, hundreds knelt in prayer before the padlocked church. Only a week before, thieves had broken into the basilica of Cartago, 15 miles from San José, murdered a guard, and stolen the jewel-decked, five-inch image of Costa Rica's patroness, Our Lady of the Angels. With it, they had taken $185,000 worth of gold and jewels belonging to the church...