Word: sounding
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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After a few days she returned to her vigorous regimen: early morning Mass, a noontime swim in her pool or in Nantucket Sound, and a solitary afternoon of golf on the back nine of the Hyannisport Club. In between, she devotes time to her heavy correspondence, her work in behalf of the mentally retarded, and reading. She has received books on Greek history from Jackie Onassis, and an invitation to go on to Greece on her forthcoming visit to Paris to see her daughter Eunice and her son-in-law, U.S. Ambassador Sargent Shriver...
...hear the sound of good, solid judgment whenever you talk...
Even Paul Krassner, editor of the black-comic book the Realist, makes his broadside sound like a grudging salute: "Wayne is one of the floats from the Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade...
Another thing that bothered Wayne was the war. He was for it. When ordinary men feel that way, they sound off at home or in saloons. Wayne did it in a picture. The Green Berets was probably the only prowar movie made in the '60s. It was so pro that New York Congressman Benjamin S. Rosenthal accused Wayne and the Army of conspiracy. The movie, claimed Rosenthal, "became a useful and skilled device employed by the Pentagon to present a view of the war which was disputed in 1967 and is largely repudiated today...
...that he started with. George Ratliff Jr., 39, a Pittsburgh steel-company engineer, began 1969 with a portfolio worth $16,900, has seen its value drop $2,500. He describes himself as a "fundamentalist" who invests only in securities that he thinks offer sound values. Among his losses: $1,000 in Gulf & Western convertible bonds that he bought because he considered them "a perfect hedge against a falling market...