Word: skid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Foresight Was Rare. All during the wild skid that led to last week's "Black Monday," the U.S. press maintained what amounted to an unintentional conspiracy of silence. There were clues to be found back in the financial pages-but, even by the oddest journalistic judgment, that was hardly where the story belonged. And sometimes even the financial-page footprints were obscure. "The stock market acted yesterday like a diver going off a springboard," reported the New York Times in a heavy-handed attempt at cuteness. "It went up, down, up, and then plunged." The New York Post...
Here and there, a paper sensed the significance of the market's movement and pushed the story briefly onto Page One. The Tulsa World kept the story on Page One three days running (STOCKS SKID TO NEW LOW ON SELLOFF). In the San Francisco News-Call Bulletin, the market story surfaced twice. But such foresight was rare...
...between times, Navarro turns dials on imaginary television sets (gunfire everywhere), short-wave sets (static and screams), moves in on an auto race at Indianapolis (skid, crash, silence-then the thin crackle of flame...
Neither of the two new clubs has come up with any big surprises. The Mets were playing better than .500 ball after an initial nine-game losing streak, but are currently in a new skid which has cost them eight straight. Thomas, Richie Ashburn, and Charlie Neal are performing for their new club with some of their greatest flair, but the club has been unable to bunch its hits. Rooting for the Mets, with their never-wases and has-beens becomes something of a sick joke: Hodges lines a screaming shot off the left field wall and is thrown...
...nice simple country boy of 22. He began to hit the bottle and hit it hard. After the war, he kept right on drinking; in 13 years he was arrested 51 times for being drunk and disorderly. He lost job after job, wound up on Chicago's Skid Row. On Jan. 24, 1955, Ira stayed up all night drinking muscatel with four other Indians in a desert shack on the Pima-Maricopa Indian reservation near Phoenix, Ariz. Next morning he was found not far from the shack, dead. He had strangled on his own vomit...