Word: runaway
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cleveland's Coach Paul Brown grabbed Jimmy in the draft, built a new ground offense around Brown. Last year Jimmy led the league in ground-gaining, was runaway choice for rookie of the year. This year, with Rookie Speedster Bobby Mitchell operating at halfback to keep the defense spread to cover an outside threat, Cleveland has the best ground game the pro league has seen in years...
...American World Airways last week discharged some 5% of its 5,400 Latin American Division employees. Chief reason: "A runaway competitive situation in Latin America." Another carrier operating in Latin America, Panagra. last month asked the U.S. for a yearly $6,800,000 subsidy,* citing the drop in passenger loads (from 60% to 53%). Both Pan Am and Panagra blamed the fall in revenue on "the entry of a large number of foreign carriers into the area; the cut-rate fare policies instituted by many of these carriers...
...first couple of numbers straight-the melody always there, easy and obvious. Then she leered from between her big rhinestone earrings and let the crowd know that she was about to take off. She basted Lazy River with a wild boogie beat. Her knees bounced up and down like runaway jackhammers. She jumped from her bench as if kicked by a mule, grimaced like an ulcer case on the way out, writhed like a belly dancer, sucked her thumb, tugged at her bra, groaned. Sometimes she struck some keys with her elbow, but she never missed a note...
Intransigence & Righteousness. The college today can look back on some turbulent early days. Oberlin was a way station on the Underground Railway, and once a sizable faculty mob swarmed ten miles to free a runaway slave from a U.S. marshal. Something in the air fed intransigence; fire-breathing Feminist Lucy Stone was a graduate (1847), and later Oberlin's rich soil of righteousness produced the Anti-Saloon League. Present-day manifestations are less obvious: a bluntly worded faculty defense of academic freedom, a tone of ineffable moral superiority in the student newspaper's lectures to the college administration...
...signs that runaway inflation is not a present danger do not mean that inflation is dead forever. But barring another Korea, or a letup in the Federal Reserve Board's vigilance over monetary policies, most economists feel that the price level will be stable for at least a year...