Word: lode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...knew how gold prospectors felt when they stumbled across the mother lode," McNair said of the find...
Which is not to say that the Bond lode is worked out. NBC's parody, Get Smart, proves to be a very viable Fleming entry, mainly because it dares to be healthily sick when the competition is all sickeningly healthy. Straight-faced nasal Comic Don Adams plays Idiot Agent Maxwell Smart, an 0 bungling desperately to become an 007. In the opening episode, he was pitted against Mr. Big, played by Dwarf Michael (Ship of Fools) Dunn. Smart received a phone call during a black-tie concert from a receiver in his shoe. Then he sat down in Dunn...
...years, Novelist James M. Cain has worked a literary lode bordering a trash heap. Even his best works−The Postman Always Rings Twice, Mildred Pierce, Double Indemnity−reeked of their neighborhood, and no doubt as a consequence were made into movies. In this novel, his sixteenth, Cain has at last achieved breakthrough. The Magician's Wife is pure trash. The book is so bad, in fact, that it is redeemed by its own absolute sins against credibility, plot, characterization and style. Reading it becomes a suspenseful exercise in disbelief, in which the reader is sustained, as well...
...next few weeks, most of these Texas Gulf insiders began buying up the company's stock in hopes that the lode was as good as the core looked. By early April 1964, rumors of the strike had flitted from Timmins to Toronto to Wall Street. When the New York Times printed a story of reports of a "great deposit" found at Timmins by Texas Gulf, the company promptly slapped the report down as "without factual basis." In a press release on April 12, the company discounted the Timmins core: "Any statement as to the size and grade...
...pocketing another one-half G.M. share attracted so many buyers to Du Pont that the company's stock made one of its sharpest single-week gains in recent years before giving way to profit taking. The happy windfall for shareholders will deprive Du Pont of a rich lode of dividends that in the past has provided one-third of its earnings. For almost any other company, this loss of earning power would have been a severe blow. But Du Pont's profits from chemicals alone have been rising so rapidly that its profit margin is among the dozen...