Word: staid
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...entire presentation was appropriate for the men of the Apollo 8 crew. Flying in the wake of Apollo 7, with the irrepressible Walter Schirra and his rollicking "Wally, Walt and Donn Show," they seemed as staid and businesslike as a group of corporate executives. Borman, Lovell and Anders are deadly serious men, cool under pressure and addicted to speech filled with space jargon. Borman, 40, is a lay reader of the Episcopal Church, and during the Apollo 8 mission read a prayer addressed to "the people of St. Christopher's [his church], actually to people everywhere." He also inspired...
Died. Earl Eisenhower, 70, younger brother of former President Dwight Eisenhower, who once served a term in the Illinois State Legislature; of a heart attack; in Scottsdale, Ariz. A staid businessman for 35 years, Earl plunged into politics in 1964, was top Republican vote getter in an unprecedented at-large election for the Illinois House of Representatives. Two years later he ran for clerk of heavily Democratic Cook County. He lost by a substantial margin and retired to Arizona...
Inflation in 1968 helped to foster a contagious speculative mood in the stock market. Led by the "gogo" mutual funds, many once staid institutional investors plunged into small new issues that offered a chance for quick profit. Fried-chicken franchisers, wig makers and small computer-service firms had no trouble bringing out new-and often highly speculative-stock issues. Frequently, the prices of their stocks soared unrealistically, to 50 or even 100 times their per-share earnings...
...Cooper reduces himself from a director to a variety of quartermaster. His sole purpose and accomplishment is to deliver the proper number of actors to any part of the stage which will accommodate them, in time for the musical numbers. No 18th-century or war could have been as staid...
...those rare occasions when he has to pass or make the big play, he has shown an amazingly strong arm. He should continue to surprise today, even in the staid confines of Palmer Stadium...