Word: gropes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...economy and begin buying shares again. At its close at 616 on the old year's final trading day last week, the battered Dow Jones industrial average was up 38 points from its 1974 low (578 in early December), and some forecasters were suggesting that the average could grope its way upward another 200 points or so over the next twelve months...
Death skins her eyes, allowing her to prepare for loss by making her more vulnerable and open to experience. And there is still plenty of that. Her best friend, who also lost a husband when he ran off with another woman, drags Sandy to a group-grope therapy session. It is not her thing, though in her own graceful way she learns to take risks with strangers. Riding a bus to Atlantic City during a brief stand-down from her deathwatch, she holds the hand of a grossly fat woman who has spilled out her troubles. She suspends the usual...
Coming of age in the '50s was something less than storied. It was rather like taking a walk in a fog; one had to grope to achieve anything, from political experience to sexual savvy. It was not mere whim that caused Gadfly...
...come down from the dark past. Yet the authors, generally moderate, are quite merciless when dealing with what they regard as the fumbling ignorance of Stampp, Elkins and Phillips on the subject of economics and statistics. The message is perfectly clear. Historians who do not have these tools could grope for another hundred years in subjective confusion and never be able even to evaluate or rebut the work of the cliometricians...
ACTORS ARE A fragile, bizarre breed. Their eccentricities and insecurities are probably linked to the nature of their livelihood. They grope for recognition and an intangible goal called "the top" only to defend the niche from eager young talents. To attempt the climb one must be hooked--on laughter, on audiences, on applause...