Word: slipped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...This calm view of the recession was reflected in normally jittery Wall Street. The bull market had been the first to take fright last year. After hitting a July peak of 522.77 on the Dow-Jones industrial average, only a shadow below the alltime high, the bull started to slip, stumbled to his knees in October, when the average hit 419.79. As a result, shrewd investors have long since discounted the current news...
...Great Purge. Little Wolfgang was lodged, with other foreign youngsters, in Children's Home No. 6, then briefly among Russians in a grim Dotheboys Hall called the Spartak Children's Home. At school, the teacher vanished after having made a slip of the tongue and garbled a current slogan of Stalin's to read thus: "[We] will make them think twice before they stick their Soviet snouts into our hogs' paradise...
Pardon me, TIME, but your slip is showing! In the publication of the item "Buffer Off?" in your Feb. 10 issue, we sincerely believe you were misled by the research reports in The New England Journal of Medicine...
...grimy, red brick row houses huddle bleakly behind paneless or paper-covered windows, and tenants must sometimes use ladders in place of stairways, outhouses instead of running-water toilets. With the jungle overcrowded, other immigrants fan out into other areas in the city. Some well-off families manage to slip into fine old neighborhoods like Germantown, where they keep well-run homes. But the net effect of the migration is to create new ghettos, drop real-estate values, drain tax revenues, lift the crime rate,† and overburden public schools (18 are all-Negro; in 50, Negroes comprise from...
...ground as liquid-fuel rockets do, the solid-fuel bird can be gone in a flash. Its higher speed while still in the dense lower atmosphere costs something in aerodynamic drag, but since solid-fuel rockets have no pumps, valves or plumbing, they are more compact and can slip through the air more easily...