Word: roses
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...emotional week, the Dow-Jones industrial average surged briefly past the 840 mark at which earlier rallies this year had stopped. Trading on the New York Stock Exchange twice boiled over 19 million shares for the sixth and eighth most active days in history. In all, the Dow-Jones rose 29 points for the week, closing...
Later, I wished I hadn't. As the meeting progressed, the Center's representatives built up a case that the Center was actually helping the people of the world. As Nye put it, "Maybe it looks like we're painting a bowl of rose's, but we think we've got a pretty good thing going." At the end of the meeting, there was to be only a choice between what I could sense as the real activities of the Center in supporting U.S. policies, and, on the other hand, a picture that did indeed resemble roses. My one question...
Then Roberts rose to offer his amendment, arguing that the proposed resolution did not completely erase the policy of using scholarship reduction as a disciplinary tool. "We have one form of leverage here and we choose to use it on only one class of our students," he said...
...Beatles' next album, Magical Mystery Tour, features the song "I Am the Walrus" ("corpse" in Greek, according to LaBour) and shows McCartney in a walrus suit on the front cover. On page 23 of the inside series of pictures, the other three Beatles wear red roses in their lapels, McCartney a black rose...
When the gypsy music stopped, the host rose from the table and began to tell his guests of the virtues of squid with mayonnaise. "It exerts a favorable influence on metabolism," he said, "and is prescribed for persons with heart problems." The setting was Kuala Lumpur's Hotel Mirama, and the host was a man from Prodintorg, the Soviet agency in charge of food exports. He was promoting Russian seafood, but the sales luncheon was neither a gastronomic nor a commercial success. Oily sardines were served with Georgian brandy so medicinal-tasting that it is sometimes known as "Stalin...