Word: depressed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...global oil production make it the world's second biggest oil company (after Standard of New Jersey), the Shell group's performance last year was disappointing. Despite record sales of $6.9 billion, a sharp drop in gasoline and oil prices in Europe and Japan helped depress profits 3% to $583 million. Without U.S. Shell, which is 69% owned by its European parent, the slide would have been steeper. The profits of Spaght's realm rose 10% (to $198 million), fueled principally by a record $2.8 billion in sales. Since taking charge four years ago, Spaght has expanded...
...somewhere in the staging the good lines, the nice phrases, and the archy's-eye point-of-view are lost. In book form, all archy's prose is in lower case (the cockroach typed out his copy by jumping onto the keys, but was not heavy enough to depress the shift lock). Unbroken by capital letters and sparsely punctuated, it reads like a kind of slow, dead-pan monotone and provides the perfect backdrop for the good phrase, the turned cliche, the well-dropped contradiction...
...made instantly miserable and tense by being denied most of his drinks and rich meats. Told that he can go on drinking, he stays relaxed, which reduces the temptation to nibble between meals. Also, despite a popular misconception, two or more cocktails actually depress the appetite. The drinking man feels satisfied after a filet mignon, and the little bit of fat that he gets with it will do him no harm...
Doubtless he tosses off these cruelties-for-amusement's- sake rather carelessly, never comprehending that they often hurt or depress members of the company for days. While I myself have never minded being panned by the CRIMSON, many actors, and theatregoers, place undue stock in your frivolous insensitivities...
...Last week Manhattan's Guggenheim Museum put the pioneer abstractionist's modern-day reputation to a bold test: at the London art auction house of Sotheby & Co., the museum offered for sale no less than 50 of its 170 Kandinskys. Fears that such a mass sale might depress the market proved unwarranted. For it was painting from Kandinsky's early abstractionist period that brought the top money-$140,000 for one Improvisation, a record auction price for abstractions by anybody. Total take...