Word: wall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Crimson captain Chouteau Dyer won the 220 freestyle in 50.5. As in the Dartmouth meet, Dyer was slowed when he missed a turn by a fraction of an inch and paused to touch the wall...
Within the guarded inner labyrinth of the Pentagon, five men sit at a brightly polished table in soundproofed Room 2C923. Around them the walls are covered with maps: a relief map of Europe, flat blue maps of the Pacific and the Atlantic, brown-and-gold maps of the land masses of Asia and Africa. Spotted strategically across the grey wall-to-wall carpeting are wastebaskets stenciled SECRET.* Four of the five men are doing most of the talking; the fifth is listening, chain-smoking Parliaments, working intricately filigreed doodles on a white notepad with the preoccupation...
...Hall is the pride of many of the members, particularly because it is the home of one of the largest pipe organs in New England, implanted high on the side wall. It's not used very much or for anything in particular, but it's there to talk about...
...controls were planned was enough to stop the downtrend. Next day the market dropped through the 1957 low set two days before. At week's end the market steadied, but the Dow-Jones average ended the day at 466, nearly 11 points off from the previous week. Wall Streeters began watching anxiously for a test of the 460 Dow-Jones level, where the market has met strong buying support three times in the last 13 months...
...widely twisted by scare headlines, all the gabble gave the impression that something must be badly wrong with the patient. Washington, which seemed to be warning of inflation and recession at the same time, was actually saying that if inflation continued to increase, there would be a bust. But Wall Street's consuming worry last week was not inflation but deflation. The fact that the boom is slackening off in a few spots transformed the optimism of a few weeks before into an exaggerated pessimism. Few analysts pointed out that a leveling off is precisely what the Federal Reserve...