Word: dipping
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Dates: during 1970-1970
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...while they begin to relax-they find out that they can just live and take their time to do things. I spent hours last year just watching an eagle catching air currents by the cliffs out there. It was really remarkable-he'd balance in the air, tilt and dip, and rise again forever without moving his wings...
Harvard football coach John Yovicsin may have to dip into his reserve force against Penn Saturday if the Crimson's injury situation does not improve rapidly...
...interior rhythms, cycles of public motion and private labor, of crisis and calm. Last week Richard Nixon began a new round of intense activity. At summer's end, congressional elections loomed in the middle distance, and for the first time Nixon saw his popularity in opinion polls dip below 50%. Campuses were reopening, bringing uneasy possibilities of violent dissent. The auto strike diluted optimism that the economy was at last beginning to right itself (see BUSINESS). And in the Middle East, earlier hopes for peace were rapidly unraveling. Nixon moved almost simultaneously on all fronts...
Premack's prime evidence is Sarah, a seven-year-old female chimp with a working "vocabulary" of more than 120 words. Sarah can not only comprehend the meaning of these words but can dip into her glossary to answer questions and build original sentences...
...steam last week. Having climbed nearly 70 points since mid-August, the blue-chip indicator dropped nine points and closed at 762, reflecting profit taking, worry over possible auto and railroad strikes and concern about the danger of a new explosion in the Middle East. Despite the dip, analysts are generally cheerful. As the market moves into its traditional post-Labor Day period of reappraisal -both of economic prospects and of individual portfolios-many Wall Streeters think that prospects for a gradual lessening of inflation, recovery of production and easing of tight money form a sound base for continued gains...