Word: fold
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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This same mindlessness extended to Republican delegations. They voted as they were instructed to vote. No one dared to bolt from the fold--indeed they would not have been in Miami Beach in the first place if they did dare--and their week was one of idle frustration. Everything was settled before they arrived. Their role was predetermined and precisely scheduled. They fit neatly into the scenario, but beyond a certain point they became unneeded. For a small delegation there were no parties at luxurious Miami Beach homes, no visits with Party bigwigs. There was only a mid-priced hotel...
...raids were in support of a 20,000 man South Vietnamese counter-offensive on the northern front. They had the two-fold objective of destroying North Vietnamese troops and supplies already on the battleground and cutting off reinforcements and war materials reportedly moving south...
...operated by Boston Broadcasters Incorporated (BBI) and counting several prominent Harvard professors among its stockholders and board of directors, promised to make improvements and innovations in educational, science, health, and children's programming, and community-orientated shows. The Boston Herald-Traveler Corporation, which owned WHDH-TV, promised to fold if it lost the station...
...investment-counseling outfit. It was not until 1950 that Price started his first mutual fund, the T. Rowe Price Growth Stock Fund. It was the industry's best performer in the 1950s and still ranks high among large growth funds. Price has one other fund in his fold, the Rowe Price New Era, started in 1969. All of Price's funds are "no loads," meaning that the funds have no salesmen and the buyer does not pay a sales commission. Price's funds have won such a reputation as sound investments that last year their combined...
...nine will go their separate ways, possibly on the bus home retelling just once more the tale they've told a 100 times already: and when its time to hit the crib they'll take off, neatly fold up, and tuck away the fondest memory they've every known--a maroon rowing shirt with a white Harvard...