Word: seconder
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Though Rolfe was primarily a glove man, he was also a threat at bat (.289 lifetime average) and noted for his game-winning hits. He helped the Yanks to six pennants and five World Series titles, then as a manager in 1950 startled the baseball world by finishing second with a mediocre Detroit Tiger club that had finished fourth the year before. In 1954, he returned to his alma mater, Dartmouth College, where he served as athletic director for 13 years...
Secretary Kennedy's threat of controls-his second in little more than a month-was intended to push the Senate into moving on the surtax. Instead, it only strengthened a growing impression in the Administration, the Congress and the financial markets that he is a welterweight in the Nixon Cabinet. One of Kennedy's aides stated flatly: "I don't think anyone at Treasury has thought much about controls...
...fell especially far last week after Pan American skipped a dividend as a result of a $19 million loss in the year's first five months. Traders were further depressed by a cutback in capital spending at Chrysler and news that retail sales dropped in June for the second straight month. These indicators might bring some cheer to the Federal Reserve Board, which has been desperately looking for evidence that its restrictive money policy has produced some slowdown. But New York's First National City Bank warned in its latest economic letter that, "to hold fast...
Consumers are gloomy, too. The University of Michigan's Survey Research Center found in its second-quarter study that an overwhelming 77% of consumers expect prices to rise as rapidly or even more rapidly in the next year as in the past twelve months. The Center found no confidence that higher interest rates would curb inflation. George Katona, director of the survey, noted that earlier questioning showed many consumers expressing confidence that Nixon could bring inflation under control. His interpretation of the new findings: "The Nixon honeymoon is over...
Flung Typewriters. Today, however, the splendor of Crane's intention is winning him a more tolerant audience. This is especially true among poets sharing his faith in the word as "object." It is also true among academic critics like Columbia's John Unterecker, whose Voyager is the second serious study of Crane's life to appear since Philip Horton's adventurous Hart Crane: The Life of an American Poet...