Word: fazed
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...Williams breezed into Dallas two years ago, determined to break into the Big Rich. Williams, 23, son of a prosperous Louisville furniture manufacturer, announced to all who would listen that he was going into the oil business. True, he had only a $1,200 stake, but that did not faze him. Said he: "I've had experience in road construction and furniture manufacturing, and there's a lot in common between those two and oil. They all use heavy machinery." That seemed to satisfy investors anxious to get in with a possible challenger to oil-rich Clint Murchison...
...first mile to work each day to keep in shape, is picked up by a trailing Bentley for the rest of the trip. He does not like to take work home with him, usually spends his evenings among London's international set. The pace does not seem to faze Loudon. but his attractive wife has an ulcer. Loudon rarely sends letters, believes that firing off cables is a better way to get attention. One of his favorite sayings: "You can never be too long in a cable or too short in a letter...
...itself for tighter money by reducing the price it will pay for Government underwritten mortgages from 99% to 97% of face value. When money gets tight, as Fannie May knows, lenders turn in their mortgages to get the cash they need for other investments. But the hike did not faze the stock market, which has dropped more than once at such news. At week's end. it forged ahead to a new record high of 643 on the Dow-Jones industrial average...
Space cannot hamper nor ray gun faze his hero Buck Rogers, but last week Cartoonist Rick Yager admitted that he had surrendered to one of the lowest of earth-bound weapons: his editor's blue pencil. "Too much editing, too much criticism-I just couldn't create any more," explained Yager, whose last drawings for the National Newspaper Syndicate will be published this Sunday. Retorted the syndicate's President Robert Dille: "We're happy he quit...
This was a prospect which did not seem to faze President Soekarno who, reiterating his belief in "guided democracy," said: "It is for the purpose of purifying democracy that I'm seeking a solution." How much time the President had left in which to find a way out was open to question...