Word: springboard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...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 ran straight-faced an optimistic handout from a brokerage firm ("Chemical stocks should resist further market weakness"). In Birmingham. Ala., the News managed to get through...
...failure) may dictate a sudden change in their whole way of life. For the rich (who generally have several other places elsewhere), an apartment is a kind of permanently rented hotel suite. For seekers of anonymity or those who merely hope to be rich, the city apartment is a springboard, a stopping-off place that can be left without regret or nostalgia on the way to a better spot. It is ideal for those who value convenience and mobility above roots (their roots are generally back in Indiana, or in the suburbs), for people who are eternally on the edge...
This week, a fortnight after doing a considerable survey of the quality of new-style Protestant sermons, we bring a four-color look at the Roman Catholics "general staff," the College of Cardinals. And though our springboard is the formal installation last week of ten new cardinals, we have been preparing for the event for two years, ever since Pope John XXIII named the first Negro and Japanese cardinals in history. Photographer David Lees in Rome was asked to shoot as many cardinals on the wing as he could, and whenever he could. His first opportunity came at a Eucharistic...
...Mississippi as a Freedom Rider; he is still out on $500 bond after a breach-of-peace arrest. His fellow assemblymen, both Democratic and Republican, groan pointedly when Lane rises to deliver one of his long and emotional speeches. He clearly hopes to make his assault against Carlino a springboard for a try this year for Congress...
...Springboard. The result was no clear-cut victory for the U.S.; but it was certainly a defeat for Cuba. If only 14 nations voted to exclude Cuba from the inter-American system, there were 20 votes in favor of Cuba's immediate exclusion from the Inter-American Defense Board, and 16 votes not only to suspend arms trade with Cuba but to instruct the OAS Council to "study the feasibility and desirability of extending the suspension" to other items. At week's end, using the resolution as a springboard, the U.S. let it be known that...