Word: run
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...turning point came in 1950. Student associations of the free world decided to split from the Communist-run IUS. Tactics such as levelling germ-warfare charges against the United States convinced many associations that IUS could not be reformed. A meeting in Stockholm established the International Student Conference, now the largest international student organization in the world...
...aimed to attract the little investor. But the demand was so great that $11 billion in orders poured in last week. "There was such a crowd on the floor," said the vice president of a New York mutual savings bank, "that for a moment I thought there was a run on the bank." All over the U.S., investors pulled their money out of their institutionalized socks to buy the four-year, ten-month issue, which finance officials have gleefully dubbed the "magic fives."* The New York Federal Reserve Bank reported that savings deposits in local commercial banks fell...
Wall Street's bull market has also brought other troubles-among them the revival of the oldtime boiler shop.* Most boiler shops are hit-and-run operations that fold up before the SEC can swing into action. But in the past year the commission, largely through its New York regional office under Paul Windels Jr., has cracked down hard. In fiscal 1959, the SEC's total number of injunctions against brokers and security dealers doubled over the previous year to in, and its number of criminal actions tripled to 45. "We'd do more," says SEC Chairman...
...best creations describe their own birth.'' The birth of the poem, Pasternak seems to be saying, is like the birth of a world, day emerging from night. The poet encompasses the world and suffers to express it ("Blood froze in the huge Colossus") while the common run of humanity sleeps under the snows. Such is Pasternak's own creative shorthand that -as with any major poet-the possibilities of symbolic interpretation are almost limitless, without ever offering complete certainty as to the "real" meaning. But an electric current of excitement runs through the poem, in which...
After returning from the halftime break, the Crimson was obviously not the same team it was earlier. The line, which had thoroughly controlled Columbia in the first half, was out hit and out run by the Lions, and the Crimson backs, not sure of their blocking, no longer hit into the holes with the same abandon...