Word: walls
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...into a champion. If, for instance, Jacobs thought a horse simply needed peace and quiet, he would remove him to a dark, remote stall. If a horse wouldn't eat, Jacobs would move him next door to a horse that ate like one, chop a hole in the wall so the hunger striker would observe the mad gluttony in the next stall and, sure enough, the power of suggestion usually worked. Once Jacobs determined from what he felt was a pained expression on a mare's face that her shoes were too tight, and another time he diagnosed...
...recent article in the Wall Street Journal, portraying the new journal as extremely well-funded, "grossly exaggerated the situation," according to Genovese. "We're solvent right now but need another 50,000 bucks by Christmas," Genovese said...
...still decorated in the style of the '30s, when she was one of the screen's highest-paid performers. A vase of fake white calla lilies stands on a white piano across from a white couch that rests against a mirror set in an off-white wall. Two 32-in.-high nude statues of her stand on the piano, a nude painting of her hangs on the wall, and there are photographs of her everywhere. Hers is an egocentricity so forthright and complete as to be pure, like that of a six-month-old baby, happy...
...Senate Banking Committee chairman, who cast the sole negative vote against Miller's nomination, groused that the federal funds advance was wrong because "the economy is not at a point where restraint is appropriate." Investors have shown no such concern. The born-again stock market, say some Wall Streeters, is the "Miller market...
...piece discount; that discount will double under the new rate schedule. Security Pacific Bank, for example, will shortly mail all customer statements not from its 530 branches in California but from its Los Angeles headquarters, using automated equipment. Some businesses may turn more to private mail-delivery services; the Wall Street Journal, Reader's Digest and Time Inc. already use carriers to hand-deliver some papers and magazines...