Word: worde
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...field, seven or eight trainees would pile into one car, leaving Johnson and Blasher alone in another. When lessons were given in mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, the instructor showed how a hand kerchief could be used-in case any one was ever called upon to save a Negro. The word nigger was used freely, and because of their friendship, Blasher and Johnson were called "salt and pepper...
...Desmond Donnelly has bucked party discipline, and called for Wilson's resignation. Says Laborite M.P. Reginald Paget: "It really boils down to the fact that Harold Wilson has reached the stage which Lloyd George reached at a certain point-that no one in the world believes a word he says...
...fluttered by politics at home and alarms abroad, by racy tips and wild rumors that whisper along Wall Street. No matter that the rumors usually have the reliability quotient of the market-rallying report two weeks ago that the Pueblo was about to be released by North Korea. That word apparently came from Red China by way of Paris. Last week the market fell and then rebounded in a swirl of contradictory reports that President Johnson was (or was not) planning to call for wartime controls on the economy, that profits were (or were not) heading...
...chart-covered offices of banks, brokerages and mutual funds, computers constantly scan the stock lists to spot companies or entire industries that appear to be breaking out of their usual earnings pattern. Once an uptrend is noted, word quickly gets around; analysts go to the same meetings, tend to eat at the same places. They constantly talk with each other on local or long-distance phones. Brokerage houses also pass on their research findings to mutual funds and other institutions in hope of landing their enormous commission business. Says an officer of one Boston-based mutual fund: "A stock often...
...good lies in Leone's camera work-expertly combining color and composition, with sharp attention to the details of shape and texture that are available when shooting on location rather than on studio sets. Bad is the word for the wooden acting, and Leone's addiction to the cramped values and stretched probabilities of the comic strip. And ugly is his insatiable appetite for beatings, disembowelings and mutilations, complete with closeups of mashed-in faces and death-rattle sound effects...