Word: orneryness
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In the oil business, the wildcatter is an operator who combines the cunning of a coyote, the nimble independence of a mountain goat and the ornery courage of a longhorn bull. Relying on instinct and experience as often as scientific aids, he drills wells in places where competitors feel sure...
Pitching for the Cardinals, champions of the National League and defending World Champions, Bob Gibson has earned the reverence of opposing hitters. The 32-year-old right hander, who won three games in last year's series, strung together 15 straight victories this summer, including 10 shutouts. Gibson set a...
He underrates the real power of top managers and bankers (who lent more money last year than ever before), and overlooks the fact that an energetic free market rejects thousands of new products every year, despite all the elaborate plans of groupthinkers. The ornery and unpredictable consumer is not quite...
Presumably aimed at those customers who like to see the lower halves of double bills, Fort Utah never once rises above second-class status. Its covered wagon train predictably forms a circle at the first sign of Injuns, its cast mouths such ancient phrases as "you ornery cuss" and "I...
Kinseyan Revelation. "The whole thing," says London Observer Columnist Katharine Whitehorn, "is a midwestern Methodist's vision of sin." She is absolutely right. Hefner's parents, Glenn and Grace, had been childhood sweethearts in Nebraska before they married and moved to Chicago. Glenn, an accountant who is now treasurer of...