Word: slayers
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boom Slayer. Roche may have a touch of the typical automan's optimism, but other seasoned economy watchers agree that business is basically sound. "A recession is certainly not imminent," says Harvard Economist John V. Lintner. "Business is very strong." Echoes James Robertson, vice chairman of the Federal Reserve Board: "Too much is being made of the auto figures and the market performance. When matched with other straws in the wind, neither of these developments means much." Even so, Gardner Ackley, the President's chief economist, says: "Some of the tremendous exuberance has gone out of the economy...
...Catherine gets clouted in the face with a sea shell and knocked down a treacherous embankment. After a lot of voodoo-dee-oo and slipping about in the tropical moonlight, Jessica comes through happily, and a sudden storm conveniently takes care of Catherine's slayer. Now then, what...
...cases that troubled the public conscience was the grisly one of Timothy Evans, who in 1950 was accused of killing his wife and daughter and was executed, although in court he named Prosecution Witness John Chris tie as the guilty man. Three years later, Christie was revealed as the slayer of six women, and a month before his own execution, he confessed to the murder of Evans' wife...
...shambles. The campaign management, directed by onetime Senator William Knowland, was at best unsteady. The schedule underwent constant change. The candidate rarely indulged in more than the most perfunctory chitchat with reporters. Barry shrouded himself in an impenetrable diffidence, acting for all the world like a reluctant dragon slayer. In his public appearances he hardly ever exhibited that electric quality which, for example, helped him hold the 1960 Republican National Convention in thrall. He seemed to stay on the defensive, endlessly trying to answer his enemies' charges that he wanted to sell TVA for a dollar, that he would...
...sense of justice that demands the death penalty for the slayer of an assassin is strange and bewildering. It must appear to the world that we had little regard for our late President when we demand the supreme penalty from the man who desired to avenge him, however mad and ill-advised...