Word: holing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...news that the U.S. was building a hydrogen bomb, together with Dean Acheson's opinion that it was no longer any use to seek agreement with Russia on atomic energy control (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), caused some people to look for a convenient hole to creep into. France, the U.S.'s principal ally on the Continent, seemed to be looking hardest...
Phillips Brooks House offered a basement room, which some wit soon dubbed "the black hole of Calcutta." Although students could cat a homemade lunch there and play ping-pong, there was no doubt about the room's inadequacy. Finally, in 1935, with aid from a special fund, the University opened the Commuter Center in Dudley...
Improvements have gradually made Dudley much more acceptable that the "black hole," though its facilities, do not approach those of a House. Besides the main common room, there are a dining room, ping-pong equipment, and locker facilities. Since many commuters bring part of their own lunch, the Center serves food a la carte. Student organizations have the use of common room tables, and are busiest during lunch hours when the day's largest crowd pours...
...refused to quit. He rented another rig, drilled again in the Conroe field. A platform collapsed and he burned the skin off his hands sliding to safety; he stood off a sheriff bent on reclaiming his equipment. He finally "made a well." He got a little oil with another hole in the same field. Then he hit it big in Chambers County and one day the Humble Oil Co. sent him a check for $700,000. He was 26. McCarthy ordered his Houston mansion built, bought his big diamond and went on plunging...
...Probably the richest man in oil reserves, Richardson is a fiftyish bachelor who lives in the skyscraper Fort Worth Club, with a fine collection of Remington and Russell paintings of the Old West. A barrel-bodied man with sandy hair and a quizzical smile, Richardson drilled many a dry hole, for years lived on credit in a cheap hotel and ate on credit at a drugstore before he hit it rich in 1935. He owns a 30,000-acre island in the Gulf...