Word: rode
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...himself to make ends meet. "I went up to Omak, Wash.," he says, "and this outfit had a bull they said had never been ridden. I bet 'em a thousand bucks that I could ride him. I put up half, and a friend put up the rest. I rode him. I had to. 1 gave 'em a bum check for that...
...percentage of total assets and income-and both assets and income have been rising steadily. Since 1959, the fund has increased its total assets by 25% to $2.1 billion, and the value of shareholders' investments and reinvested dividends has risen more than 36%. The fund even rode out the 1962 market slump with a minimum of damage because of its cautious policy of investing in reliable, high-quality stocks. Despite the company's bigness, M.I.T.'s billions are still tended by only five trustees, ten senior investment analysts, and a home office work force of 39 (including...
Fulbright, now 59, grew up in the small (pop. then about 5,000) town of Fayetteville in the Arkansas Ozarks, rode a horse three miles to school, milked the family's lone cow each day. His parents were wealthy. His stern, business-minded father Jay owned or held major interests in the town newspaper, a lumber company, a bank, a Coca-Cola bottling plant, a railroad, an ice company, and a hotel. Fulbright's mother led most of the town's civic activities, wrote a daily newspaper column on any topic that popped into her head...
David Lilienthal rode the seas of controversy and survived. Perhaps he succeeded because he was a supremely practical administrator concerned with getting a job done, attentive to down-to-earth detail, indifferent to dogma. "The short and sure road to despair and surrender is this," he wrote, "to believe that there is, somewhere, a scheme of things that will eliminate conflict, struggle, stupidity, cupidity, personal jealousy. The idea of Utopia is mischievous. as well as unrealistic. And dull, to boot. Man is bom pushing and shoving as the sparks fly upward...
...enlightened, exurban parents handed down only one sexual prohibition: Thou Shalt Not Tease. And to Nickie Hornbury, violation of it is unthinkable-as is any subject other than sex. Even when she rode the subway to Barnard College, her favorite game was to contemplate, in case the car was stranded, which passenger would be coupled with whom. By the time Nickie is 20, the game can be played for real: dinners at the Hornburys' waterside estate on Long Island are followed almost automatically by a skinny dip in the Sound. Unfortunately, at 25, Kathrin Perutz' ultra-sophistication...