Word: limbs
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...market has been one of the phenomena of the postwar U.S. Last week, as stocks fell lower day by day, there were those on Wall Street who mourned its passing. Cried the New York Herald Tribune: BULL MART ENDS 10-YEAR REIGN. What lured the Tribune out on a limb-and prompted other hasty obituaries of the bull-was an oldtime market tool known as the Dow Theory, fathered by Charles H. Dow, a onetime broker and newspaperman, who founded Dow, Jones & Co. in 1882. The Dow Theory holds that when the Dow-Jones industrial average breaks through its previous...
...master of arts in the teaching of his specialty, the student must be certified by three groups: his major department in the university, the education department, the supervisors of his year of teaching. The result, says Dean Chase, is that "we will be putting ourselves out on a limb. We will not only be saying that this person has passed our tests, but that he or she will be a good teacher...
...course, some people are naturally conservative; they prefer to avoid taking a position wherever possible. They just don't believe in going out on a limb, when they don't even know the genus of the tree. For these people, the vague generality must be junked and replaced by the artful equivocation, or the art of talking around the point...
...instinctive reaction stirs the ire of railroad officials. "The commuter is a son of a pup," says William R. Main, assistant vice president of the New York Central Railroad. "He is an irrational animal. Unless he gets smart pretty soon, he will be out on the end of a limb. He looks upon the service as a commodity, doesn't give it the thought it deserves, takes the service for granted, but explodes when his train is late, and seems to harbor a latent dislike for railroads...