Word: outlook
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...split their stock without raising dividends temporarily gained only 5% in price, dropped back 8% below the market level by the end of six months. Nevertheless, in a rising market lower-priced, split stocks tend to move faster than the old shares, as long as the company's outlook is improving...
...creatures which it makes of men, as on the abounding exuberance and health of the impulses it cannot entirely suppress. As Puntila gropes drunkenly toward the friendship of his hired man, and as the hired man gropes cockily toward the privy parts of Puntila's red-headed daughter, the outlook seems positively sunny--until Brecht's characteristic bitterness clamps down again and the hired man takes to the road, convinced that Puntila's intermittent decency cannot be relied on, and that the daughter could not live a proletarian's life no matter how much she wanted his proletarian body...
...Mort Sahl: "Our outlook is similar because we have a similar approach to many things, and because some of the same things frighten...
...school piece, full of ill-chewed borrowings from Joyce and Virginia Woolf. The hero is a sticky, artistic young man-a kind of underdone Dedalus-who rebels weakly against the smothering care of his mother. He gets some support from his friend, a medical student with the sour outlook but none of the roistering profanity of Dedalus' Buck Mulligan. But after a week's timorous escape at a seaside resort, the rebel returns and surrenders to his clucking parent...
Long-Shot Chance. Herter was often riled during his Capitol Hill years by isolationist speeches of fellow Republicans. "If the Republican Party is going to survive," he warned in 1942, "it must be represented by as many individuals with a worldwide outlook as the party can find. Abandonment of isolationism is the Republican Party's main issue." Spotting Dwight Eisenhower as a man with the worldwide outlook that the G.O.P. needed, Herter visited him in Europe in 1951 and urged him to run. He had the courage to give Ike some blunt advice: "If you think there...