Word: punching
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...company prospered, but Oppenheimer was not content with gold. He liked diamonds. He spotted the possibilities in Southwest African fields captured from the Germans, and beat to the punch the stodgy starched-collared heirs of Cecil Rhodes, the legendary empire builder and diamond czar who died in 1902. Then he tackled the giant of the diamond world, De Beers Consolidated Mines, Ltd. He bored from within, buying stock on the Johannesburg exchange, share by share, until he had enough to become a director...
...Pinch & Punch. What did the signs add up to? Answers ranged from a breather (Dwight Eisenhower) to a serious recession (Texas' easy-money Democratic Congressman Wright Patman). Various economists and businessmen called it recession, rolling readjustment, healthy adjustment, mild cyclical adjustment, slowdown, shakedown downturn, downtrend, sidewise movement, plateau, leveling off, period of hesitation, soft period, temporary cyclical swing in long-term growth, polka-dot prosperity with the spots getting bigger...
...mild economic pinch was already swinging a powerful psychological punch. In many U.S. cities, recession ranked with Sputniks as a topic of furrowed-brow talk. With new jobs harder to find than six months ago, workers were suddenly anxious to hold on to the jobs they had. Not because they were broke, but because they were worried, people were postponing big purchases, cutting down sharply on luxuries. Mourned a Los Angeles night-owner as he cast an eye over empty bar stools: "I guess I'll have to trim the $2 cover charge. Six months ago it didn...
...going to buy this magazine with a hard cover?" he asked, turning around to meet a recently-arrived member of the group. "Very glad to meet you," he said, switching the punch glass to his other hand. "Well, that sounds like a fine idea...
...this time, the hosts were urging the author and his admirers downstairs to dinner and to a discussion of his novel. "That punch was rather strong," he admitted, walking through the dining room. "Oh--you put your silverware in your pockets; that is clever...