Word: weasels
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...shares reached a peak, a new group of sharpers moved in, said Lefkowitz. Knowing the stock was astronomically overpriced, they began selling short. Among those known to have sold short, said Lefkowitz, were two ex-convicts, Sidney Barcley and Morris ("The Weasel") Miller, who got one-year prison terms in 1958 for SEC violations involving Canadian oil and uranium stocks. After the price plummeted, Barcley made the rounds of sweating brokerage houses offering "mob money" to bail the brokers out and take over their businesses...
...Ford did not hold with the high society of his time. His idea of a nice social evening centered on a group of folks in wholesome recreation in minuets, reels, hornpipes, quadrilles and other assorted folk dances, and for him there was no livelier tune than Pop Goes the Weasel. His granddaughter-in-law, Anne Ford, wife of Henry Ford II, is altogether a different model. Daughter of the late James F. McDonnell, a wealthy Long Island stockbroker, Anne McDonnell Ford, 41, is well schooled and widely traveled, the very essence of the glamorous urbanity and sophistication that Detroit...