Word: dipped
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Even the most ardent Republican readily admits that the U.S. has been through a recession. But despite the Democrats' gloomy cries about a "secondbest year," the most remarkable fact about the dip is that it was just about the mildest recession in U.S. history. While in some places, notably in Detroit and in New England's mill towns, unemployment has been acute, in terms of the total work force it has been small. The highest jobless total was 3,700,000 v. more than 4,000,000 in 1949. Last week the Government reported the figure...
...Southern "mood" plays (Coe was born in Alligator, Miss.). Complained an adman: "One week there'd be a story about a blind old lady in Texas, and the next week a story about a blind young lady in Texas." This summer the Playhouse audience rating took a serious dip (usually it has been in or close to the Top Ten), and that, apparently, gave the admen enough leverage to ease Coe's control of the show. Coe has been moved upstairs to the job of supervisor of production, Gordon Duff will replace him as producer...
...fateful day Lounger Bernstein was persuaded by his wife to paper a wall. "It was easy," says he. "They make wallpaper with glue on the back, and all you do is dip the stuff in water and roll it on." Bernstein soon bought himself a $12.75 home-carpentry set and nailed up a shelf. "Did a good job, too." In quick order, he reversed a bothersome living-room door, made a plywood table for his son's electric-train set, laid a tile floor in the bathroom. "Great stuff-it's got suction cups on the bottom...
...dinner. But even if I'm pitching pennies, I want to beat the cursing life out of you. If I lose a big ball game, sure, I'll shake your hand afterwards, but I'm bleeding inside." He snorted. "Good sportsmanship is so much sheep dip. Good sports get that way because they have so much practice losing...
...years ago, Poet McGinley began to dip into history ("I have a theory," she says, "that people cannot appreciate history until they reach 40"). As she read, she encountered saints and their works. Though raised a Roman Catholic, she knew little about them and began to read more and more until, she says, "like everyone else who reads about the saints, I fell madly in love with them." The result of Phyllis McGinley's love affair was a series of deft verses on some of the saints (see opposite page}, which she titled "Saints Without Tears" and assembled...