Word: tells
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wood lot, surrounded by beechwood slash and camera cables. Since this is a carefully produced fantasy, I am wearing a DeKalb Seed Corn baseball cap, a green-and-black checked wool shirt, Ralph Lauren gum boots, and bib overalls with an alligator on the pocket.) "I see. Can you tell me, then, what you New Hampshire locals look for in a presidential candidate...
...your point. Tell me, is it really true that the town clerk can write a permit that allows you to bury a body on your own land...
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...
...into a rout on Oct. 24, five days before Black Tuesday, and in the days and weeks that followed Wall Street was like a city under siege. Broker Jonas Ottens, 78, then an odd-lot order clerk with Salomon Bros., recalls being pressed into service to telephone customers to tell them that their margined stocks were to be sold off unless they put up more money. "The first call was routine," he remembers. "But the second man acted so upset that I thought he was going to go out and kill himself. I just refused to make any more calls...
...unmistakable signs of approaching nausea; the arid taste of cotton as he rotates his tongue around his lips in a desperate search for moisture; the increasing reluctance of his legs to drag themselves up against the force of gravity; these signals tell the distance runner he is running out of gas. If he can keep going at this point he can pull away from the pack. Reed Eichner can keep going; Reed Eichner can keep "running on empty...