Word: groaned
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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While many businessmen groan about "profitless prosperity," one manufacturer of everything from manure spreaders to nose cones has reversed the trend: profits are rising despite slipping sales at New York's Avco Corp. Last week Chairman Kendrick R. Wilson, 48, a onetime Wall Streeter told a luncheon of securities analysts that Avco's earnings for the first nine months of its fiscal year jumped 20% to $8,800,000, though sales slumped 3% to $234 million. As soon as Wilson sat down, his good friend, President James R. Kerr, 44, got up and explained how Avco turned...
...very sinister; Coop gives testimony that convicts a business colleague of murder and then, with a stolen moneybag still not found, begins throwing pound notes around. When his wife asks where the cash came from, he mumbles something about the stock market and adds, as cellos groan ominously in what ought to be called the film's foreground music, "I made a killing...
...Brazilian doctor and surgeon for over 40 years, agrees: 'Moral insanity, sexual perversions, repression, inferiority complexes, petty crimes-these often follow in the wake of blood transfusion.' " And when Knorr noted that doctors were experimenting with the transfusion of blood from cadavers (TIME, May 26), a horrified groan filled the stadium...
...brothers close, "as a tribute to the man who made this act possible," with an art-rending groan of When the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day. When Bing caught, or was caught by, the act out West (he sees his sons only rarely), he said diplomatically, "You're doin' fine; don't change a thing." With bookings piled up and the take-home pay close to $1,000 a week per man, there is no reason that they should...
...most of Japan's 94 million people, the frequent mild earthquakes that rattle windows and dismay tourists are routine works of the gods. But the nearly 3,000 employees of Dentsu Advertising, Ltd. are subject to other tremors and are often heard to groan: "Oh Oni is angry again." Oh Oni-or Big Demon-is no evil spirit from the nether world, but the nickname of Dentsu's autocratic, dynamically modern-minded president, Hideo Yoshida, 57, who almost singlehanded has built Dentsu into the world's fifth largest* advertising agency with yearly billings...