Word: zenith
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They met at the Union Station for the midnight train to Monarch. All of them . . . displayed celluloid buttons the size of dollars and lettered, "We zoom for Zenith." The official delegates were magnificent with silver and magenta ribbons...
...delegations were presenting the claims of their several cities to the next year's conventions . . . In the midst of these more diffident invitations, the golden doors of the ballroom opened with a blatting of trumpets, and a circus parade rolled in. It was composed of the Zenith brokers, dressed as cowpunchers, bareback riders, Japanese jugglers . . . As a clown, beating a bass drum, extraordinarily happy and noisy, was Babbitt...
...returned to Zenith, his desire for rebellion was partly satisfied. He had retrograded to a shamefaced contentment. He was irritable. He did not smile when W.A. Rogers complained, "'Ow, what a head! I certainly do feel like the wrath of God this morning. Say! I know what was the trouble! Somebody went and put alcohol in my booze last night...
...export with such zeal seem to agree. Pollster Louis Harris found that a strong (64%) majority are persuaded that the U.S. is getting shortchanged on trade, by Japan as well as by other countries. Today a good many Americans would applaud the exasperation confessed by John Nevin, chairman of Zenith Corp., in the latest Harvard Business Review. Says he: "The question is whether Japan is going to open up or the rest of the world is going to shut down Japan...
...coaching apprenticeship with the legendary Lou Little. He soloed as a head coach at Williams from 1963-1967. When the Ephmen went 7-0-1 in 1967, he was voted New England College Coach of the Year. Having returned to Columbia in 1968, Navarro's career reached its zenith in 1971 when the Lions went 6-3, only the third winning Columbia season since 1952. Navarro emerged as the messiah of Morningside Heights that year as the Lions won every one of their home games with Homeric heroics in the last seconds...