Word: walls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bars above and around the sides, the ringleaders stationed convicts with jugs of naphtha from the laundry. Their orders: at the first noise of an attack from outside, pour the naphtha on the hostages, light it. "We'll burn 'em," shrieked a convict from the wall, and Warden Powell got word from inside that they meant...
...girls dashed into the heavily curtained back kitchen, cried: "Now!" A grinning, red-haired schoolmaster called Glyn ducked between lines of drying laundry, flicked a wall switch, punched the playback button on a battered tape recorder, and darted back, screwdriver in hand, to his homemade 80-watt transmitter. And out into the night, on BBC-TV's Channel 5, went the Freedom Station's call signal: the sound of a pencil tapped three times on a saucepan...
When strangers sought him at the villa, Bonnard would pad out to meet them at the garden gate, blandly regret that "M. Bonnard is out." Back in the house he tacked huge canvases to the wall and dabbed at them with colors arranged on a china plate. Achieving something that suited him, he would snip it out and ship it to his dealers. Connoisseurs began buying Bonnards at modest prices; living simply, he had no money worries. His chosen life remained much the same until his death twelve years ago at 79, when he left a studio full of pictures...
...climbed 18 points for the week to a new record of 624.06. Reflecting week-by-week increase in car-loadings and higher rail earnings, the Dow-Jones railroads climbed to a new 1959 high of 168.92, up 5.81 for the week, and highest since 1956. What encouraged Wall Street about the advance was that the market leadership came from such old-line blue chips as American Telephone & Telegraph and International Business Machines, which topped 600 before sliding back at week's end. Behind the market advance was a growing realization by investors that 1959 will be a far better...
...predict the course of the stock market, Wall Streeters have tried everything from the height of tides to the frequency of sunspots. The most practical tools are charts that show the price changes of individual stocks as well as the action of the market as a whole. Chartists are powers in the Street; on what their charts show, institutions, mutual funds and thousands of individual investors buy and sell. In this select group of experts, who can often send a stock zipping up-or down -the leading chartist is generally recognized to be Edmund W. Tabell, 55, the tall...