Word: puzzlements
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...case, few on Wall Street will be sorry to see 1976 end. It has been a strange year, in which a volcanic opening led only to months of puzzlement and frustration. Paralleling the economy's robust first-quarter growth, the Dow spurted ahead 157 points, to 1009, from Jan. 1 to March 24. But for the next six months the market moved listlessly sideways. Tantalizingly, the Dow pierced the 1000 mark no fewer than eleven times during the year, only to fall back every time. On Sept. 21, the index reached 1014, its peak for the year, but then...
...surely read about it in The Crimson the next morning. However, if The Crimson were my only source, I would never have known that the William Belden Noble Lectures were given in Memorial Church on November 3, 4 and 5 to an audience of several hundred. It is a puzzlement to me that you would not consider the presence on campus of a scholar of the international stature of Hans Kung to be newsworthy...
...could hardly blame the Russian for his puzzlement and anger; Berlinguer & Co. certainly do not talk like...
...crushed velvet tuxedos: the women looked like tennis club matrons and their escorts like croupiers. The teenies had come for Al Pacino, but he was in New York. Prodded by the eupeptic booming of the outside master of ceremonies, they stayed to squeal at Walter Matthau and (in some puzzlement) at the evening's representative of the muse of irony, Gore Vidal. When Elizabeth Taylor, almost the last survivor of the studio star system for which the Oscar ceremony had been created, appeared on the walkway, it was like the arrival of a galleon in a weekend fleet...
Perfect Foil. The left is still unable to figure out exactly how conservative Carter really is, but that puzzlement shrinks next to the threat of Jackson. Even within big labor, which is still mostly opposed to Carter, there are several liberal unions that take a favorable view of him. Bill Welsh, political director for the American Federation of State, County & Municipal Employees Union, believes that while Carter still has not passed the liberal test, he has found the perfect foil in Jackson...