Word: narrowness
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Colby rely heavily on point and figure charts that carefully note every price fluctuation in hundreds of stocks, as well as the changes in market averages. A basic part of the theory is that the longer a stock or a market average stays in a narrow trading range, the greater will be its rise-or fall-when the stock or average breaks out. Tabell, who advised his clients to sell in January, now says: "The industrial average has begun to form a base. We may have seen the low point, but the market should take another two or three months...
...lunch, the three friends went out for a hike. Janitor Emil Boehn was carrying wood into the lodge as they left. "It's a beautiful afternoon for a hike," said one of the women. "Yes, ma'am," replied Boehn. The women walked to a slippery, narrow canyon trail, wound their way past ravines with 20-ft. drops, came to the dead end of a canyon whose walls rise 80 ft. on three sides, framing a frozen waterfall. They were about a mile from the lodge...
...long time after India got its freedom, Socialist Jawaharlal Nehru regarded foreign investors with the narrow-eyed suspicion of a spinster convinced that friendly attentions from any man probably conceal evil designs. So U.S. investors passed India by. After all, there were plenty of other places for them to invest their money-places where markets were more developed and officialdom far less mistrustful. General Motors even closed down its automotive assembly plant in Bombay...
Doctors dread an embolus (from the Greek for a stopper), whether it be a blood clot, a blob of fat, or a bubble of air. An embolus can travel through an artery until it is caught at a narrow point, then shut off circulation to the tissues beyond. But last week two Georgetown University neurosurgeons reported that they had gone to a lot of trouble to make ultramodern emboli in the form of plastic pellets, and had used them to correct a brain defect...
...Bath (overleaf) May calls "simply one of the greatest pictures I have ever seen." In Still Life with Candle and Profile the sinister silhouette is Bec'imann's own. The Stormy Sea packs a vast lifting rush of waves into a narrow horizontal, as if it were seen through eyes half closed against salt spray...