Word: sharing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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What's more, Keane was determined to win his share of ball games in the Grapefruit League, something the lordly Yanks have often considered beneath their dignity. "I don't want the people in New York reading about losses," he said. He ordered extra bunting practice for Yankee pitchers, extra running for the hitters, even took a turn in the sliding pit himself. After the Yanks barely edged Washington 4-3 last week on homers by Mantle and Catcher Elston Howard, Keane sounded mad enough to quit again. "We made at least four mistakes," he complained. The Yanks...
Matthau and Carney are middle-aged newly de-weds. Matthau, a sportswriter, has been deserted and divorced; Carney, a newswriter, is booted out by his wife just as the play begins. Matthau invites Carney to share his lonely eight-room apartment. "What can I do here?" asks Carney. "You can take my wife's initials off the towels," replies Matthau with morose glee...
Some people are never satisfied-particularly investors. Though 20 million U.S. share owners seek their opportunity in the stock market and millions more are attracted to bonds and mutual funds, a growing number of investors are eager to take a bigger risk in the hope of making a faster buck. They are plunging into unconventional investments that offer such attractions as novelty, tax relief and, when the investor has guessed right, quick-rising profits...
...will move to impose controls on it. Investors buy the raw whisky by the barrel, wait while it ages for three years or longer, often collect a 100% profit when it is finally sold to bottlers. For $1,000, those who want to be angels can buy a 1% share in the North American rights to a low-budget European bedroom comedy or spy thriller, can look forward to doubling their money if the movie is moderately successful or doing much better if one of its smalltime starlets blossoms into a minor Bardot or Lollobrigida...
Blaine has an aversion to good taste. He explains the decline of the double standard by noting gracefully that "the girls want to share the fun." He has a similar aversion to logical thought; he elucidates the libertarianism of the 1960's by invoking century-old war horses: the rise of Science, the deterioration of Faith, the pressure for Sexual Equality. In short, here is a man, with all the prestige and influence of a Harvard psychiatrist, who displays the analytic powers of an after-dinner speaker for the Hoboken Kiwanis...