Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Only a few weeks ago, the bears were out and growling on Wall Street. The Dow-Jones industrial average faltered after a sustained rise that had sent it smashing through the magic 800 mark; in the sharpest daily decline since the assassination of President Kennedy, it dropped 6.77 points in one day. As the bears saw it, this was the start of the major shake-out they had been expecting all along: it was time to dig in for a slide to well below 800. But the market barely gave them a passing nod before it turned around and galloped...
...average this year as the market pauses every once in a while to catch its breath. But with the U.S. economy looking stronger than ever and the stock market so free of speculative excesses, only a few cold-nosed bears still sniff a sharp price break in 1964. Most Wall Streeters rub their hands with glee when they behold the market still so full of untapped values, of stocks selling at only 14 or 15 times the company's earnings. The most common prediction on the Street: the Dow-Jones will hit 880 before year...
...system, expanded to its full glory at this time of year, is not kind to Skippers. It may be comfortable enough to Skip along all year, but when confronted with a ten foot brick wall of exams, logic and public opinion demand something more consistent. One should either try to Strive over the wall or Scoff around it, not simply bumble happily among the bricks...
...sense an "civil mood" among Negroes. I sensed it for the first time in Washington the week the Civil Rights Bill was being debated in the House of Representatives. A young Negro from California, much too old and with that brooding presence, was leaning against the wall outside the House Chamber. I asked quietly, "Do you think the Civil Rights Bill will be passed?" He screamed at me: "Hell, we don't need a bill, all that stuff is already in the Constitution. You're already free, man. All you have to do is act like it. I'm here...
Later that day, Dr. Louis J. West, a University of Oklahoma psychiatrist, interviewed Ruby for an hour, found him full of obsessions. Ruby had crashed into the wall, said West, in an effort to "end it all." His reason: "Last night the patient became convinced that all the Jews in America were being slaughtered. This was in retaliation against him, the Jew responsible for 'all the trouble.' " The psychiatrist said that Ruby also believed he had recently watched while his own brother was tortured and incinerated in the street outside the jail and that the screams still echoed...