Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Many Ifs. In winning, Mosbacher showed the kind of daring that would be foolhardy in another sailor. At one point he drove Weatherly through an opponent's windless lee in a maneuver about as difficult, wrote one reporter, "as driving a golf ball through a wall." But sailors have come to expect that of blocky Bus Mosbacher. A master strategist, famed for his starts, Mosbacher likes to think of himself as a quarterback, figuring the odds against every gamble. "A sailing race," he says, "is like a football game: the quarterback must watch everything-not just...
...things was always his own. He did not paint mountains, but their inner anatomy; he could see demons in the cheeriest of scenes, could find menace lurking inside the most ordinary object. His world was like the nursery of an overimaginative child to whom every fleeting shadow on the wall is a dragon or a ghost...
...long-standing tradition, traders on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange break into cheers whenever stocks move sharply upward. Last week stocks were again moving upward, but the cheering had a nervous ring. "I'm afraid of this rally," said one Wall Street expert. "It lacks conviction...
...high point of 734.91 last Dec. 13. For the week as a whole, the average picked up 15 points, but Friday's performance confirmed the suspicion of many analysts that the market was not beginning a major rally but only making a "technical adjustment"-a term that Wall Streeters use to describe a change in price levels which is caused not by visible political or economic events but rather by day-to-day traders responding almost mechanically to market conditions...
Most analysts see no dramatic upturn in stock prices in the immediate future. Wall Street opinion expects the market to wait for autumn and a clearer reading on the health of the U.S. economy before any significant trend develops...