Word: inked
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Leyland, its losses during the strike ran $17 million to $25 million a week, adding to the $43 million in red ink generated by the company's auto-manufacturing division last year. Leyland still earns money from bus and truck production, and from its special-products division. In fact, it has just announced earnings of $120 million for the 15-month period ending in December. The strike losses will all but wipe out these profits, however. That jeopardizes future loans from the government, which are essential to provide the $425 million that Leyland needs to make a new version...
...asked him if he was disappointed, ten years after. I asked him why he did it. I wasn't taking notes, and he noticed that, amid the soggy papers and running ink. He smiled. The question was to suit my own curiosity...
...flowers sparkling with morning dew or mountains silhouetted against the evening sky. It is as if she saw the camera simply as a technologically advanced way of doing the arts of bygone eras. She inscribed the backs of her photographs in red, as if harking back to the vermilion ink that was once reserved exclusively for use by China's emperors...
...purpose of the merger, of course, was to lower operating expenses for the loss-ridden Daily News. The deal, however, had the opposite effect. In the last year before joining up with the Times, Fanning's paper lost $650,000. A year later the red ink was even redder: $750,000. Worse, according to Fanning's lawsuit, Times Publisher Robert B. Atwood and his staff have tried to kill the competition by scaring off potential Daily News advertisers and subscribers, mismanaging the paper's financial affairs and letting its distribution system go to pot Says Kay Fanning...
...time elapsed since golf's genesis in those Scottish hinterlands, Bernard Richard Meirion Darwin has been the game's greatest chronicler. Although Darwin is indisputably the best golf writer who ever lived, many also rate him the greatest sportswriter to set ink on paper, and that estimation takes into account such noteworthy members of the genus as Ring Lardner, Grantland Rice, Leo Tolstoy, Ernest Hemingway and William Faulkner...