Word: slid
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...effect that humanism had on angels (in art, at least) was to stress what the creatures had in common with man. Before angels slid down the ramp of sentimentality at whose bottom they now lie, a perfect balance between their human and spiritual aspects was achieved by, among others, Giotto. The dead Christ was a sight to make angels weep, and in his fresco cycle in the Scrovegni Chapel in Padua, Giotto summed up all its terrible pathos in the little angels that tumble like shot birds...
...chief fiscal adviser, George Shultz (see box, following page), arrived laden with his budget papers, agendas and reports. During three days of discussions between the President and a circle of top aides, the tone was philosophical but the omens inauspicious. In the fiscal year just ended, the federal budget slid from the $1.5 billion surplus predicted in February to a $2.9 billion deficit...
...came barreling for home on a single to centerfield by the Cubs' Jim Hickman. His way blocked by the Indians' Ray Fosse, Rose hurtled headlong into the burly catcher, knocked him into a somersault and landed splat on the plate for the winning run. "If I had slid," Rose said after the National League's 5-to-4 victory, "I would have broken both legs." As it was, Rose suffered a bruised thigh and Fosse a severely wrenched shoulder-injuries that will temporarily sideline both players. "I'm sorry Ray's hurt," Rose said. Then...
Investors have been rattled by the Government's failure thus far to prevent inflationary recession, and current news has done nothing to soothe their nerves. Last week the Government reported that industrial production in April slid for the eighth time in nine months. Personal income in April would have dropped for the first time in more than four years if the Government had not shelled out unusual lump-sum payments to Social Security recipients and federal workers. The payments were necessary to make a 15% Social Security rise and 6% federal pay boost retroactive to the first...
...increases in the year's first quarter speeded up to 5%, slightly more than in the previous quarter, meaning that inflation was as bad as ever. At the same time, a preliminary estimate showed that the first quarter's real gross national product, after discounting price increases, slid by 1½% to an annual rate of $727 billion. Since that was the second straight quarter of decline, economic purists could declare that the U.S. is-or was-officially suffering from recession. Yet the dropoffs have been so small, compared with the severe slumps of the 1950s, that most...