Word: wall
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Canyon compares in sheer size with the land itself. Workers erected from scratch the town of Page, which now has a population of 7,000. A giant refrigeration plant daily turns out 4,000 tons of ice to cool the concrete so that it hardens properly. Perched on the wall of the canyon, the concrete-mixing plant is as tall as a 21-story building...
...Wall! As the studio audience chanted "to the wall," the announcer asked viewers to telephone immediately if they recognized any criminals among the men. One woman rushed forward to identify Prisoner RamÓn Calviño as a Batista torturer (he was, with 15 murders on his record, acknowledged the exiles), asked to be on the firing squad that executes him. A few brave men defied their inquisitors. Carlos Varona, 21, the son of Exile Leader Antonio Varona, and a paratrooper in the rebel army, coolly asked his jeering captors: "If you have so many people on your side...
...final night's telecast, Castro himself, decked out in beret, cigar and low-slung .45, strode onstage for the finale. As the chorus of "to the wall" reached a crescendo, he harangued the prisoners for 3½ hours, crying "If the people of Cuba want a Communist regime, who has the right to deny it to them?" Then he grandly announced that he would "try to persuade" the government to spare their lives-all except those identified with Batista. The prisoners, by now dizzy from denunciation, clapped and cheered...
Backed against a wall, the visiting Pittsburgh teacher barely escaped a thundering mob of moppets carrying chairs. A second herd crashed by, lugging lightweight desks; then came a teacher, pushing a bookcase on wheels. Instead of vanishing into classrooms, the kids camped in noisy huddles all over one huge room. With teachers hopping from huddle to huddle, the scene sometimes took on the look of a Red Cross disaster station, but it was routine teaching at the free-form grade school in Carson City, Mich...
Many investors fail to consider that what rises quickly can as quickly fall; even the newly offered stock of so solid a company as Ford dropped below its issuing price shortly after it came out 5 years ago-and stayed below it for 3 years. For such reasons, many Wall Streeters would like to see more done to curb the speculative fever, lest it bring on a painful shake-out that would harm thousands of small investors and, as in '29, give the Street a bad name that would take years to live down...