Word: gutter
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...What is green and yellow and lies in a gutter surrounded by cookie crumbs...
WHEN bowling was burgeoning a few years ago, the Brunswick Corp.'s dazzling profits and stock splits were a financial 300-game. But the game's popularity peak has passed, the industry is vastly overbuilt-and Brunswick has lately been getting mostly gutter balls. Chairman Benjamin E. Bensinger, 58, fourth of that name to run the 119-year-old company, last week reported a 1963 loss of $10.1 million, largely because Brunswick set aside $15 million to cover defaulted payments on alleys and pinsetters. Trim Ted Bensinger is undismayed. He foresaw the drop and tried to forestall...
...Lucas account, MacArthur had a grudging respect for Harry Truman. The President had been in Inde pendence, Mo., when the Korean War started, recalled MacArthur. Truman "reacted instinctively, like the gutter fighter he is-and you've got to admire him." But once Truman got back to Washington, "Dean Acheson brought him back under control." All in all, MacArthur said, Truman was "a man of raw courage and guts-the little bastard honestly believes he is a patriot...
Obeisance to the norms and methods of Madison Avenue has long been evident in the annual advertisements by the Admissions Office as to the numbers of worthy applicants that have been rejected; and in the purple prose which the administrative and medical staff writes for consumption by the gutter press and which follows the lead of the cigarette companies in seeking to identify success in love with the corporate product...
...closely associated with the wayway right. Said Eisenhower: "I despise all adjectives that try to describe people as liberal or conservative, rightist or leftist, as long as they stay in the useful part of the road." Even more, he said, he despises the people who "go to the gutter on either the right or the left, and hurl rocks at those in the center...