Word: walling
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...first week of 1955 the bull, full of power and bounce, symbolized the growth of business in 1954. The economy had a muscular new look; Wall Street had turned from a speculator's hunting ground into a long-term investor's market; the new "people's capitalism" was building a new economic base...
Ejection came fast. First out was Holland. Strapped in his seat, he hit the air like a bullet splattering against a steel wall. The blasting air stream broke his right arm, fractured his pelvis, pulled apart the ligaments of his left leg, belted his face and body into a raw, black and blue mess. Then his chute opened. Pilot Smith ejected next, took the same pummeling as his body shot into the steely air, but his chute never opened and he fell, crushed, to the ground. Navigator Gradel's blast-out broke his arms and legs, his right shoulder...
Hard-worked citizens of China, shivering last week in Peking's first heavy snowfall as they stood reading the wall newspapers, could see only that the policy of the communes would continue, and so would the bitterness of their lives...
Drama v. Diffusion. In the U.S. the symptoms are less dramatic and more diffuse than in Europe. In Dr. May's practice with Manhattan professional workers and exurbanite brokers and industrialists, the symptoms may be nothing more pronounced than an exaggeration of the normal routine. Wall Street and Madison Avenue, he believes, require compulsive characteristics for success. The man who succeeds in these fields, becoming a slave to routine and conformity, gets nervous when the daily cycle is broken-which explains why he drinks so much on Sundays and holidays...
...just missed the moon. But Wall Street's Bull made it-and over-with ease...