Word: walls
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Because Bobby's blood made a stain on the soft green wall-to-wall carpet, Diana dashed into his bedroom for a quilt to cover his body. Then, rifle loaded for the next shot of planned mercy, she sat down and waited until her mother drove up half an hour later and started up the walk. "I saw then that there was no way I could shoot her without her seeing me, and I didn't want her to see me shoot her, so I yelled at her not to come in the house. I didn...
...body. Coupled with an electric shock, TEA promptly defibrillated 44 isolated dog hearts up to eight times each. The technique then saved the baby boy. In four other fibrillating human patients since treated in the same way, it has worked equally well. TEA may be the trick that wall allow considerably longer, cooler, safer heart operations than have been possible...
...nine metal spheres gleaming in the daytime and flashing tiny lights at night, the Atomium dominates the Fair. The architecture, too, smacks of modernity and the future. One building looks like a great stone bird; another has a corrugated wall; the roof of the United Nations exhibit hall is a half-sphere. A few of the national pavilions deviate from the functional scheme--Thailand has a charming gilded pagoda; Italy a stucco villa. But for the most part, all the catchwords of the 20th century can describe the Fair--futuristic, atomic-age, electronic, Cinemascopic...
...Exchange announced that the short position by Sept. 15 had declined only 158,807 shares to 5,646,414 shares, still one of the biggest totals in history. While a big short position is usually a prop under the market because it ensures buying to cover at lower levels, Wall Streeters point out that this may no longer be true. Many investors are now protecting profits by short sales,* plan to deliver later stock that they already...
...could commit themselves so heavily, that it had accepted less than the required 5% margin in some cases. Actually, the firm's part in the bond slide was small. It financed only about 3% of the $10.3 billion marketed by the Treasury at the peak of activity. Though Wall Streeters feel that Garvin was singled out among many Street houses that did the same thing, they expect the case to bring tighter regulations, thus prevent any recurrence of speculative dumping...