Word: ink
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...evidently there is no escaping American bureaucratese. The Peking Review's advertisements for Flyin-Pigeon bicycles and Ostrich brand ink both speak of "finalizing" orders...
...From a pen-and-ink sketch drawn on the back of a letter to a friend, probably at about the time he painted Monroe...
...long last an engineer breaks through. Your write-up on Holmes will do more to boost the sagging engineering enrollment in our colleges than an equivalent amount of ink devoted to "career" booklets...
Economic pressures chopped even the giants to size. Hornblower Hearst was so vastly unconcerned with the balance sheet that his papers ran at a constant loss; in the early 1930s his empire nearly foundered in red ink. Only drastic pruning snatched him from financial ruin?...
...Bubble Ink & Beer. As he tells it, he had only $11 to his name when he bought his first ball club-the minor league Milwaukee Brewers-and he blew $10 of that celebrating the event. In later years, he was playing with millions, and his fortunes zigzagged up and down just as fast. His teams won pennants and finished dead last. He set attendance records (his 1948 season total of 2,620,627 in Cleveland is still a major league mark) and flirted with bankruptcy. A confessed "publicity hound" who for years stumped around on a wooden peg (he lost...