Word: pining
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that. It is infinitely harder to win enemies than friends, and harder still to hold on to them. Remember: the subject is real enemies, not just those pests of whom one thinks with a dull, bored ache from time to time, or those whose irritating presence makes one pine for Madagascar. A real enemy is in a different league. He is a hated hater, a mirror image of one's meanest desires. He wants to do unto you exactly as you would do unto...
...registered quickly in the mammoth computers of the stock exchange, which have the capacity to handle deals for up to 150 million shares a day. A phone call later, Chemical Bank officials receive confirmation of the transaction and enter the information in their computer, which is linked to their Pine Street operational headquarters in Manhattan's financial district. The Chemical machine can spit out extensive historical information on the 75 key stocks in which the bank has heavy investments...
...Here is how it works. Somewhere in the modest stillness of Bryant Pond, someone rotates a crank, jangling the bell on the call box and generating enough current to cause a tab with the caller's number to click down on the switchboard in the pine-paneled back room of Elden Hathaway's house, also known as the Bryant Pond Telephone Co. One of the two operators, comfortably seated a few feet from an abandoned exercise cycle and at right angles to a gun rack, responds to the caller, voice to voice, and makes the requested connection...
...765/2 acres and includes barracks, a post exchange and several other structures. Once manned by 200 Air Force personnel, the station is now run by 45 civilians. Half the acreage is for sale. The property offers a stunning view of the Pacific and a thick carpet of redwood and pine trees. The Government has not yet determined its price, but land in the area is currently going for $1,500 to $2,000 per acre...
...Sedgwicks. Their money was so "old" it just seemed to grow wild, like weeds on a lawn, or like the manic-depressive strain that led to suicide for several members of the clan. Uncle Minturn, who kept watch over the Sedgwick gravesite in Stockbridge, Mass., insisted on cheap pine coffins for the family and would lie inside them to test their fit. Edie's father Francis, a golden boy at Harvard in the 1920s who turned to sculpting and then brought his wife and children to California, was perhaps the most curious of the lot. To save the expense...