Word: glamorous
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...York City Sir: Your statement "Itek ... became [a] glamor stock even while . . . still operating in the red" [June 1] is not factual. Itek, founded in September 1957, initially had three profitable years, during which its sales moved from scratch to some $30 million per year, and during which it fully justified investor confidence. Itek's fourth year ended "in the red," largely as a result of unanticipated problems, now being solved...
Never noted for glamor, the humble potato has lost so much of its popularity with diet-conscious Americans that per capita spud consumption in the U.S. today is little more than half what it was 50 years ago. Nonetheless, at New York's Mercantile Exchange last week some of the most sophisticated speculators in U.S. business were in a lather over the future of the potato and betting millions of dollars on what it will cost by mid-May. Seldom has the U.S. commodity market seen so wide and adamant a split between bulls and bears...
...seasoned politico will tell you that the American voter is hard to pin-down: sometimes he wants virtue in a candidate, sometimes glamor, sometimes innocuousness. Like the child of a land of infinite variety that he is, he tires easily and unpredictably of one political goody, and is wont to pass on with appalling fickleness to a new idol...
...Journal of Political Thought." Volume One, Number One has just arrived at the newsstands, at a moment that ought to be very appropriate for such a magazine to appear, but happens not to be. This is the worst of times to begin attacking liberal orthodoxy, for Kennedy's glamor has not yet worn off and the attack is as a result utterly unconvincing...