Word: without
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Without hearing a word of what is being said or shouted, any experienced trader on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange can listen to the hum of voices around him and tell what is happening. An up market has a different pitch from a down market. But old Wall Street hands vividly remember an exception to that rule. One day 50 years ago next week, recalls David Granger, 76, a senior partner at Granger & Co., a Wall Street brokerage house, "there was a hush over the floor that I've never heard since. It was funereal." Indeed...
...Black Tuesday as "a bloodbath. It was horrible." In the days after the crash, he says, several of his friends committed suicide, one by jumping off the Daily News Building, another by leaping from his commuter train. One man asked a friend of Jarvis how someone could kill himself without pain; a drug was mentioned and the next morning the questioner was dead. Two weeks later the man who advised him shot himself. "They went one after another," says Jarvis. "They couldn't stand it any more...
...course, that is exactly what they do -and without any mishap to generate much suspense. Oh, there is this photographer (the winsome Brooke Adams) who mistakes one of the crooks for a construction worker and snaps his picture when, dressed like a foreman, he is making off with some blueprints he needs. But this character, played in more than usually laid-back style by Donald Sutherland, disarms whatever suspicions she may have by falling in love with her. Even when one of her pictures appears on a billboard on the bank, it does nothing to set back the robbers...
Jeanne Piersiak took over for Johnson, while Cecile Scoon was called in to replace St. Louis. Although she's had a lot of playing time, Scoon said she was "scared" to go into the game without the comfort of knowing that St. Louis was on the bench, backing...
...amazingly consistent Kingsberg punted the ball to Scoon, who was waiting next to the deepest Princeton fullback. As Scoon scooted towards right hand corner of the field to get a better angled shot, three Tiger defensemen charged her. Without cutting down on her exceptional speed, Scoon pulled off both a step-over fake and a body fake, which confused the defense and prevented it from stopping her scoring shot...