Word: switch
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Galaxie will have its massive circular taillights set into cylindrically sculptured rear fenders in a kind of twin jet effect. So that customers can tell a Mercury from a Ford, the Monterey will boast a reverse-sloping rear window that can be opened and shut electrically from a dashboard switch...
...vastly more amusing. In 1952, she was industriously studying journalism at U.C.L.A. ("I wanted to be Brenda Starr") when, as part of a course in playwriting, she was required to take part in a college show. She went on, got a houseful of laughs, then and there decided to switch her major. Says Carol: "It's kind of like dope. You get hooked...
...emphasis on yields drew fresh attention to the stock market's sedate sister, the bond market. Traditionally, stocks and bonds move in opposite directions. When stock prices fall, a substantial quantity of investment money generally switches out of speculative stocks and into fixed-income bonds. But this switch also sets the stage for a movement back into stocks for two reasons: 1) bond interest yields fall as demand for bonds rises, and 2) stock yields rise as the prices of stocks decline...
...steel industry is proud of the axiom that "As steel goes, so goes the economy." Increasingly, this boast is challenged by those who say that the growing switch to such substitute materials as aluminum and concrete makes steel a lot less basic than it once was. But steel is still the biggest single force in U.S. industry, still directly provides the bread and butter of one U.S. industrial worker...
Wouk has altered the Wolfe legend with a startlingly original switch: Maxwell Perkins, the wise old Scribner editor who deftly chopped millions of words from Wolfe's brilliant but lardy first drafts, becomes Jeanie Green, a wise young editor. By day, she pencils the superfluous from Hawke's chapters; by night, she is his lady love. Not all night, of course; Wouk heroines are good girls...