Word: walle
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...their out-of-joint economy, like alarming new price rises and further drubbings of the greenback abroad. But last week those distant, or perhaps too familiar, woes hit home, and hard, in a burst of financial hysteria that engulfed markets, speculators and ordinary investors big and small from Wall Street to Main Street...
Harvard joined that crowd last week, after the Federal Reserve Board announced a new anti-inflation program that set off a Wall Street selling spree...
LIDDY STRODE stealthily down the carpeted hallway. He paused every few steps to make sure no one heard him. He felt carefully along the wall until his hand grasped a familiar object: a doorknob. He waited again, his chest heaving. He tried to control his breathing. From inside his plaid polyester sport jacket he drew a Mickey Mouse penlight--a gift from the gang in the Company after a memorable visit to Disneyland in 1971. He struggled with the door knob lock, employing his special tools fashioned from stolen forks. It was a motel-style lock, easily picked...
When the lock clicked, Liddy nudged the door open. He shined the penlight into the dark, revealing familiar furnishings: a washbasin and a toilet. He squatted behind the door and ran his hand along the wall. He silently counted the ceramic tiles, seven across from the right wall, four up from the floor. Liddy picked at the soft plaster until the tile came loose. Again using one of his handmade tools, he removed the tile and slipped it into his coat pocket. Liddy plunged three fingers into the vacant hollow and withdrew a small white paper slip. In the same...
Despite Weaver's record-setting four pitching changes in the top of the ninth, the Pirates still added two insurance runs. Phil Garner sent Tim Stoddard's first pitch into left for a double off the wall. One out later Garner scored when Omar Moreno pushed a single up the middle off Stoddard's replacement, Mike Flanagan...