Word: slides
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...stock market last week was buffeted by the heaviest losses in weeks. In one day the Dow-Jones industrial average plummeted 15.42 points, biggest break since President Eisenhower's heart attack in 1955. The slide was accelerated by the fact that when the average eased through the previous 1960 low of 599.10, which had withstood two previous onslaughts, a storm of selling was touched off. At week's end the average was down to 585.20, lowest level in 19 months...
...studying a pile of computer reports from Kirtland. He came to the Dec. 3 shower. The report started like many others, but toward the end the computer wrote in effect: "I give up." Linsley said to his wife, "I see something crazy," and went to work with his slide rule. Half an hour later he telephoned his colleague, Dr. Livio Scarsi: "I think we may have something...
...plateau position of the U.S. economy is a subject of discussion and debate not only in the U.S. but around the world. The big question: Will the U.S. slide into a recession or take off on another rise...
...pair's backbones in whispers. But love, naturally, has wax in its ears. Novelist Ham knows the language lovers speak, a pottage of mush and banalities, and he is not above using it. He justifies the "I love yous" by capturing the feeling of the roller-coaster slide into passion, that breath-catching dive in which a man and a woman cannot help themselves and do not want to. Indeed. Wink and Gin are so romantically in love that they do not sleep together, a refreshingly archaic innovation for the modern novel...
...Administration, you have a lot of problems of policy, like whether or not to use an overlapping grip." Wild laughter always greeted that one, but with a nod and a nervous chuckle, and a characteristic "It s true, it's true," he would slide off into a skein of digressions, usually with an aside for interested conservatives, telling them that they could get the Chicago Tribune anywhere in the U.S., "flown in, packed in ice." Following Stevenson in Africa, he reported that the natives were suspicious of Adlai's quick smile and thought he lacked warmth. Then, circling...