Word: hunched
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...sponsor of a bill, passed overwhelmingly by both branches of Congress, that would permit self-employed people to take tax deductions on their own pension programs. President Kennedy did not like the bill, since it would mean an unscheduled loss of tax revenue. Smathers had a strong hunch that the President meant to let it die by pocket veto. But Smathers also knew that he had the votes to override any veto-so long as Congress stayed in session. He therefore fought a shrewd delaying action against adjournment-and Kennedy finally signed the measure...
Everyone can also be a worrier, for insecurity is the rule. The admen live in a world where the stealing of accounts and executives is a way of life, and where a client's hunch or whim may erase a score of jobs overnight. On average, the U.S. adman changes his job once every three years during his 30s and once every four years during his 40s-a far swifter turnover than in corporate life as a whole...
...style, in which sky divers somersault and turn by waggling their outstretched arms. The classic form for a sustained free fall is an ecstatic swan dive, the jumper falling spread-eagled and belly down, his back deeply arched. A roll of the head, a dip of the hands, a hunch of the shoulders-any movement will alter his fall. The body acts as a primitive airfoil and expert sky divers use it to control the speed and direction of their plunge. Officials lying flat on their backs study and judge the falling forms through binoculars, but to most spectators...
...recent market slumps and slides with his savage, Gestapo-like attack on the steel companies. Democrats guess otherwise . . . that the market re-entry actually was caused by a widespread realization that the era of inflation in this country is over for a long time to come. Our own hunch is that Columnist Walter Lippmann taxed the President with throttling down the economy-to prevent inflation-before it had fully recovered from the 1961 recession. "As things are going," said Lippmann, "the stagnation which is overtaking the recovery will be followed by another recession." Lippmann's suggested antidote: a little...
...professionals at week's end believed that small investors, once burned, would soon return to the market in such numbers as before, or that the deflated glamour stocks could look for another astronomical climb that so disregarded price-earnings ratios. With something close to unanimity, analysts expressed the hunch that the Dow-Jones would probably struggle slowly back to the neighborhood of 650-largely stimulated by institutional buying, focusing on stocks with proven growth records, dividend yields of 4% or so, and price-earnings ratios of less than 20 to 1. Said Donald Meads, vice president of Investors Diversified...