Word: dip
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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Crown Prince Asfa Wassan would doubtless dip his nose an inch or two lower in the dirt on his next meeting with father. Haile Selassie made it scornfully clear that he considered Asfa Wassan only a dupe of others, "acting under coercion." The seeds of unrest among the educated minority of Ethiopians were still there and would grow. But it would take a stronger man than Asfa Wassan to snatch power from the little Lion of Judah...
...reverse. He wears the chips on his shoulders like epaulets, is always combat-ready for the slurs, or worse, of what he regards as the inevitable war between the races. Incidents multiply. The community swimming pool is drained after Lamar's nine-year-old son takes a dip. His wife is bloodied by a bullyboy's stone. The most vicious pressure of all is applied against Lamar by a member of his own race, a Mr. Barton, who acts as a "blockbuster," attempting to spread panic among the whites in order to purchase their homes at distress prices...
...record for that month. Housing starts in October rose from September to 109,900, although they continued to trail last year. Said George Cline Smith, vice president and chief economist of F. W. Dodge Corp.: "This activity will help to ensure that the current business dip will be quite mild and of short duration, since construction is the nation's largest fabricating industry...
...Tate Gallery in London announced that as the first work to be hung in its new American Wing it had acquired a swirly 1949 abstraction by the late Jackson Pollock, who is still the unsurpassed master of the "drip method." In neither case did the museums have to dip into native funds. The Wyeth was a gift of former U.S. Ambassador to Norway L. Corrin Strong. The Pollock was bought with money donated by Pickle and Soup Tycoon Henry J. Heinz II through the American Friends of the Tate, of which Ambassador John Hay ("Jock") Whitney is president...
...economy last week showed few signs of steady advance, it also demonstrated the sturdy holding power that has resisted any sharp slide. The Federal Reserve Board's index of industrial production, which many economists feared might dip noticeably in October, stayed just about steady at 107, the same as September, but 3% below the average for 1960's first half...