Word: slide
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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YOUR OWN THING. Writer-Director Donald Driver proved to be the perfect collaborator to help slide Shakespeare's Twelfth Night into the 20th century with rock music and the unisex look of the with-it generation...
...West plunged into what Winston Churchill called "another Thirty Years' War." That semipermanent conflict spanned such events as the Russian Revolution (1917), the Wall Street crash (1929), the rise of Nazism and the New Deal (1933). Indeed, 1968 should hardly unnerve those who recall 1939 and its sickening slide into World War II-or the incredible kaleidoscope of 1945, which alone produced the defeat of Germany, Italy and Japan, the first atomic bombs and the United Nations, plus the deaths of Hitler, Mussolini and Roosevelt. And what subsequent year really compares with Cold-war 1948, when the Russians blockaded...
...each of the past three seasons. This year, with a .327 average, he is fighting Pittsburgh's Matty Alou (.330) for National League batting honors. Equally notable is his penchant for playing every second as if his spikes were hot out of the forge, with a headlong slide here, a diving catch there, and everywhere a run, run, run. "If I had eight Pete Roses," says Cincinnati Manager Dave Bristol, "we'd run all over the league." Adds Teammate Tommy Helms: "It makes you tired just being around...
...many pressures have converged on stock prices that few brokers last week foresaw much chance of a quick rebound, though fewer still expected the slide to grow into a severe plunge. "The market is awash in a sea of doubt," said Vice President Robert T. Allen of the Manhattan firm of Shearson, Hammill. Along with the prospect of an economic slowdown because of the 10% income tax surcharge, there were worries over declining profits, falling interest rates (which help to suck investable funds back into bonds), and reduced business spending on expansion. With many big institutional traders sitting...
...expressed over the ease with which Russian tourists cross the frontier, which - a Note suggests - would be better guarded by U.S. troops. Though the Norwegians claim that they merely want to humanize the capitalist system with a view to preserving it, they are told that precautions against a slide further left must be taken in advance...