Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Lawyer Robert Price, 34, thought it was time to turn his sword into a plowshare, resigned to become executive vice president of the mutual-funding Dreyfus Corp. "The only advice I can give my successor," he said, "is to work hard, stay clean, walk with your back to the wall and keep your Bible handy...
...extraverts, by contrast, enthusiastically described how the floor became wavy, the wall paneling moved like ocean waves, and the light fixtures became fluid...
...contest to build a U.S. supersonic transport. With the Government due to choose between the Boeing and Lockheed designs next January, Boeing's prospects got a lift last week. After ten U.S. and 20 foreign airlines responded to a secret Government survey of design preferences, the Wall Street Journal polled the lines on its own. "By a narrow margin," said the Journal, they favored the Boeing...
...proposed merger with Consolidated Foods was recently turned down by stockholders. But the company is still looking, with Transamerica Corp., a financial holding company, currently said to have the inside track. Such hardheaded business decisions may not please Hollywood's art lovers, but the trend has mightily impressed Wall Street's moneymen. Variety reported that during the last month movie stocks have risen a phenomenal...
...furnace room of Herculane-um's suburban baths, the cordwood is stacked, ready to fuel a fire that has been cold for nearly 20 centuries. On the wall of a snack bar, some graffito artist has daubed a phallus and the words MA(N)SVETA TENE (Handle with Care). In a cereal and wine shop, jars brimful of beans and, chickpeas await the next customer. At a street crossing, the inscription on a pillar warns litterbugs that they can be jailed or fined...