Word: ink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...miss a splotch of the local color: a massive bowl of sinister black spaghetti that turns out to be white spaghetti slathered with an old Sicilian specialty, squid-ink sauce; a battle-royal between two skinny, toothless, fierce old men who roll about the rocky landscape hissing and ripping and snapping at each other like a couple of scorpions; a statue of the Virgin held in particular veneration by the Mafia: she has big soft, sentimental eyes-and her hand supports a skull...
...ink was scarcely dry on Kennedy's bill when the city of Birmingham exploded in a tangle of firehoses, snarling police dogs and writhing Negroes. The violence was ugly, and so were the political implications. Soon afterward Kennedy announced that he was sending to Congress a much tougher version of his bill...
...Bolivia's President Victor Paz Estenssoro stepped out, strode into the crowded schoolyard and took his place in line. "We are here to vote," he said simply. After a 25-minute wait, Paz dropped his pink ballot into the box, dipped a finger into a cup of red ink to prove he had voted, then drove off to attend to other affairs of state...
...falling into the hole by $100,000 per issue. Hartford has tried to sell, but can't find a buyer. On the boss's orders, Show's President Frank Gibney cut the staff from 70 to 30 hands and aimed at turning the corner into black ink by 1965. But then Hartford impatiently rolled up his own sleeves, and Gibney resigned. "Two people can't run this organization," said Hartford...
...months the computer tapes of two of Europe's biggest business machine makers have been feeding back their information in red ink. The losses of both-Italy's Olivetti and France's Machines Bull-stem at least in part from U.S. competition. Now both companies have sought to program for profits by naming new presidents...