Word: foundered
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...movement women, the sex revolution of the '60s was no help at all. Robin Morgan, a founder of WITCH, says that "the sexual revolution was hell on women. It never helped us?it just made us more available." The West Coast Redstocking Manifesto reports that "our bodies are male-occupied territory." And Laura X (she has abandoned her surname) says: "The pill is the final pollution, the exact analogue of DDT, of gadget-trapping you into functions, not organic wholes. Men have become no more human since its advent: according to many young women who have made that unenviable leap...
Five years ago, Indonesian students joined forces with the army in an effective coalition, which eventually overthrew the country's founder and longtime President Sukarno, largely on charges of corruption and mismanagement. Now Indonesia's students are once again on the march against corruption. This time the target is their former military allies...
Maury's moods in print reflect the influence of the late Joseph Patterson, the News' irascible founder. Patterson hired Maury in 1926 out of Butte, Mont., where Maury had been mixing freelance writing with a law practice. Maury won a Pulitzer Prize for editorials in 1940. At the same time he was moonlighting, writing Collier's editorials that often took an opposite, liberal point of view. Maury's explanation: "An editorial writer is like a lawyer or a public relations man: his job is to make the best possible case for his client...
Environmentalists praised Nixon and Council Chairman Russell Train* for presenting laymen with a concise and informative primer that will doubtless keep environmental concerns alive on Capitol Hill. But in the most important area -specific action and enforcement-the report seemed to founder in merely hortatory language...
...that time, The Dreyfus Fund was a midget, with assets of only $2,300,000. Stein earned a reputation as a shrewd stock analyst, helping to steer the fund into rapid risers, including Polaroid. Within a few years he was chief assistant to Jack Dreyfus Jr., founder of the fund. In 1962, at 35, Stein suffered a mild stroke, but recovered with no aftereffects. When Jack Dreyfus retired five years ago to enjoy his multimillions, he turned control of the business over to his protege, the ex-violinist...