Word: leveler
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Unless Constantine wished to mark the exact spot of a very holy place, argue the authors, he would not have gone to such enormous trouble, since level sites unencumbered by tombs lay close by. Clearly, the argument runs. Constantine wanted this location because he believed he was enshrining the grave of St. Peter...
...small, three-niched shrine set up between 160 and 170, roughly a century and a half before Constantine started building. Called the Aedicula (meaning little room or shrine), it was used as the focal point of Constantine's church, and was the only structure not razed to ramp level by the church builders. As Constantine's architects did 150 years later, the builders of the Aedicula had evidently gone to considerable trouble to place the shrine exactly where they wanted it, nested in the exterior wall of a sloping corridor, the Clivus (meaning slope). The authors' theory...
Like air show spectators wondering apprehensively when a plummeting sky diver will trigger his parachute, Wall Street's experts were still waiting for the stock market to level out. But last week was not the week. After starting off with a strong rally, the greatest bull market of all time weakened and fell in the last three days to end the week at 433.83 on the Dow-Jones industrial average, the lowest point in 2½ years. All told, 263 stocks, among them such blue chips as Du Pont, General Motors and Alcoa, reached new lows for the year...
...continuing market decline was due in part to gloomy news from the unstable Middle East, but most traders thought that a far more disquieting factor was an increasingly bearish view of business prospects in the eyes of many an investor. Business is still rolling along at the highest level in history; jobs were at a steady peak in September despite layoffs in the aircraft industry (see below); and retailers were predicting record sales for the rest of the year. Yet there was enough disturbing news on the nation's economic front last week to reinforce fears that...
...easy one to draw. The objection can always be made that Frankie is only playing Sinatra, a well-known Broadway character, but then he plays the part with complete conviction and a transcendent vulgarity. Outstanding example: When a woman turns him down, he gives her a long, level look that would boil ice, and says: "If you knew what you was throwin' away, you'd cut your throat...