Word: palmed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unwary. Ranged on the steps of seven pits on Chicago's trading floor, the brokers transact orders for Kansas wheat, Illinois soybeans, or other crops that have not yet been harvested and in some cases not even planted. Sales of such futures are made with hand signals-palm up and in when a broker is buying, or up and out when he is selling. Fingers are held horizontally and manipulated to indicate prices offered or asked. Each contract represents 5,000 bushels of a commodity. The contracts are still traded on margins as low as 10% of actual crop...
Singling out the city whose sinfulness most insistently demands repentance on a massive scale is a perplexing problem to Billy Graham; he has at one time or another handed the palm to New York, Berlin, Chicago, Los Angeles and even Boston. Clearly though, it is swinging London that rates the special concern of the glowing-eyed evangelist, and last week he was back there to begin a five-week crusade, his second in twelve years...
...meaning Green Lagoon, is hyperbole. A ragged hamlet located about 15 miles from the Haitian border, it is the home of 500-odd campesinos who scratch out a living by growing maize and rice in sun-baked clay that scarcely tolerates thorny scrub and cactus. Inside the Marichal bohio (palm-bark walls, thatched roof, oddments of homemade furniture), a nine-year-old boy sprawls shirtless on the concrete floor, unraveling the thread from an old silk stocking. With infinite care, he winds the thread round and round a scrap of rubber until he has a ball about...
...vibrant, crew-cut lawyer, he has put himself over as a colorful, forceful fellow during his two terms in Congress. A former seaman, he still enjoys a pinch of chewing tobacco, proudly wears Duncan tartan ties. He often reminds himself of appointments by jotting notations on the palm of his hand ("If I write myself notes, I lose them"), keeps on scrawling right up his arm when his schedule gets really busy. Morgan, a wealthy cattle rancher and construction executive who was a Kennedy appointee to the Federal Power Commission, seemed drab by comparison...
...Blue Blood. Two films shared the Itching Palm for overpromotion: Alfie and Caroline Chérie. Alfie, the story of a cockney-of-the-walk starring Michael Caine (The Ipcress File), was advertised widely at the airport with signs that read ALFIE is ROCKING, ALFIE IS TERRIFIC, ALFIE IS THE MOST. "It really isn't vulgar, is it?" asked a French critic as he watched the signs walking. "After all, the print is very small." And so it was. In fact, when the models in tight stretch pants sat down, nobody could see their...