Word: virginal
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Throughout the conversation, I seemed to detect beneath a superficial cynicism a nostalgia for the past. Jona than Kramer sounded very much like Dickens' Father Time, or like the aged child-cynic, a bitter girl in late adolescence, wishing desperately she could recapture virgin innocence...
...carrier. But in recent years it has lost so much traffic to Pan American and Eastern that it has been able to fill only 7.1% of its first-class seats and 58.5% of those in the coach section. Since 1968, Trans Caribbean has picked up new routes to the Virgin Islands, Haiti and the Netherlands Antilles. It has been unable to exploit these routes fully because its fleet consists of only nine jets. In the twelve months ending Nov. 30, Trans Caribbean actually flew only 81% of its scheduled aircraft miles. Many flights were cancelled for mechanical reasons or because...
...Though it exhibits its royalty rampant on a field of anguish, the film provides a thoroughly upbeaten ending. Cannons resound as Queen Anne Boleyn is beheaded. Henry VIII hears the signal, puts spur to horse and gallops off "to Mistress Seymour's house!" All the while, the future Virgin Queen placidly wanders the palace gardens, toddling toward history. The monarchical fevers are burning out; and England, booms the sound track, is ready for the high triumphs of Elizabeth Regina...
...crowds at Courchevel, in the French Alps, were tickled rosé by the tireless enthusiasm of Skier Pierre Elliott Trudeau. Apparently undistracted by the resort's après-ski attractions, Canada's Prime Minister swooped 20 miles down a glacier run through virgin snow, braved subfreezing temperatures, high winds and unavoidable falls in heavy crust. Instructors gave his style a B to B+, "très joli," his spirit straight A's. "I thought of coming last year," said the sportsman, "but the general was still here." Not General Winter, either. ··· Making more...
...turning point came in 1955 when he took a vacation in Europe and decided to stay. It was virgin territory for mutual funds, and Cornfeld soon realized that investments in U.S. securities could be sold to great numbers of Europeans who had hitherto put most of their money into land or bank accounts. To avoid the risk of picking stocks for investment, he ingeniously created the Fund of Funds, a mutual fund that buys the shares of other funds. Soon Cornfeld was hiring salesmen in droves and inspiring them with his own zeal through generous stock options and commissions that...