Word: slides
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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...stream of smoothly flowing lines set off against a series of thrusting rectangles. Klee, son of a musicologist and himself an accomplished violinist, long wavered between music and painting; throughout his life (he died in 1940) he kept seeing rhythmic parallels between the two arts. "And so I gently slide into the world of tonality," said he at 24, when he began to turn from etching to painting...
...stock market was a matter of concern last week not only to harried investors but to businessmen worried about the impact of its slide on U.S. business psychology. In a week of wild gyrations, it plummeted as much as 12.2 points in a few hours, bounced back up again, roller-coasted through the week. At week's end the market was down to 622.23 on the Dow-Jones industrial average, the lowest point in five months...
...Lippmann and those who echoed him seemed to slide too easily over a key point: gains made at the expense of increasing government interference with the economy might kill or strangle something more precious than the gain. "We are not slaves to our luxuries," said a member of the Council of Economic Advisers last week. "The workers have achieved a five-day week; they have taken part of their payment in leisure. If we need to produce more, we could go back to a six-day week and get a 20% increase in growth immediately." Said Special Economic Adviser
...Congress Party had teamed up with two bitter political rivals, the Praja Socialists and the Moslem League, so that the Communists could not slide into power in Kerala as they did in 1957 with only 35% of the vote. "Unholy alliance," sputtered Communist speakers who fought back with colorful torchlight processions, music and open-air movies...
...Dead Sea, customers will float in glass-bottom boats and look down upon Sodom and Gomorrah. A dark journey through the thoracic cavity of Jonah's whale will end up in a wild slide down the monster's tongue. Camels will clunk along through Egypt's Valley of the Kings, taking clients to the pyramids. Donkeys will bear the weight of multitudes from Nazareth to Jerusalem...