Word: ends
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...airlines have some huge bills coming due. They are beginning to pay for the $10.3 billion in new equipment that they have ordered, including the 374-passenger Boeing 747 jets that will go into service before year's end. In the tight money market, they have to pay about 9% interest on borrowed money. To avoid sinking deeper and deeper into debt, they must get a return of at least 10.5% on their capital investment. Last year their return was only...
...unexpected about-face, the tobacco industry last week moved toward a nearly unconditional surrender in the heated battle over cigarette advertising. Speaking for the nine U.S. cigarette manufacturers, Philip Morris Chairman Joseph Cullman III told the Senate Consumer Subcommittee that the industry was prepared to end all advertising on TV and radio on Dec. 31, if the broadcasters would go along, and in any case by September 1970, when current contracts expire...
Wells had flair-an irresistible sweep and bounce. He was a missionary who liked to begin and end sentences with "... if the Race is to be saved." He had, as Dickson points out, "the passionate urge to simplify, to convert." Only one thing was lacking: he didn't care much for people. His vision of the future always reduced itself to an elite world with H. G. Wells in charge...
...touch of Portnoy's complaint. He develops a ravenous appetite for his beautiful English teacher (Prudence Harrington) and abruptly decides that he has found true love. Barricades are formed by the relatives; insults and wounds are exchanged. But finally Claude and Isabelle discover that truce is beauty and end the war at a ritualistic nuptial feast...
...sense of pitch. The Schumann Piano Trio No. 2 kin F Major, opus 80, opened the program and nearly closed it. Alexander Schneider, Leslie Parnas, and Murray Perahia showed no life, no energy, and no enthusiasm. Each movement was stodgy, and movements two and three positively died at the end. The cellist performed rather well. Unfortunately the violinist was sadly out of tune. The biggest single complaint I would register against the performance was lack of ensemble. Notes must not only be played in sequence linearly but the parts must line up vertically as well. The rhythmic impression stole...