Word: wall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...hour, U.S.-style press conference within the ancient Kremlin* walls, Mikoyan reported to the Soviet press on his trip. In high good humor, he told of visiting the dacha of Cleveland Industrialist Cyrus Eaton, and of a luncheon at which he had pressed "my old friend" former Governor Averell Harriman to revisit Moscow now that Nelson Rockefeller had freed him to travel. Mikoyan paid tribute to American women -"they were very nice to us; they cannot hide their feelings as well as a man" -and recalled with evident relish his luncheon with those archvillains of Communist mythology, the bankers...
Even for fish, herring are not bright; to them a curtain of air bubbles looks like a stone wall. Taking advantage of this lack of judgment, the U.S. Bureau of Commercial Fisheries is trying out an ingenious system of herding schools of herring into fishermen's nets...
This publishing success would not impress the Japanese. Each month 680 poetry magazines with a combined circulation of 240,000 are printed in Japan. Toyo Keizai, a sort of Japanese Wall Street Journal, runs a haiku assortment every week. Hototogisu (Cuckoo), a haiku magazine founded in 1897, claims a substantial though private monthly circulation of 20,000. Japan's 500,000 practicing poets can win prize money from most of the metropolitan newspapers and from the Emperor himself. They write in all the classic forms, but the simple 17-syllable haiku, usually arranged in a 5-7-5 pattern...
...Jones industrials. Rarely in the past 50 years have stocks yielded less than bonds for any length of time except in 1927-29, when the rising stock market kept stock yields under bonds for almost three years. With rising interest rates and the bull market, Wall Streeters see no early reversal in the spread...
...Walker-Through-Watts a meek, middle-aged government clerk named Dutilleul fumbles for the light switch in his apartment one evening and finds himself in the vestibule outside. Hypnotically, he walks right back through the wall into his flat. He soon puts his strange talent to use in bank vaults and jewelry shops, signs himself "The Werewolf." When the Werewolf is captured by the police, he simply evaporates through the thick prison walls. But Dutilleul's powers desert him one night in mid-wall at his mistress' home, and passing Parisians take his walled-up cries...