Word: steep
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Until recent times, the treatment of madness was a kind of desperate punishment. In medieval madhouses patients were sometimes bound in whirling chairs and spun till blood ran out of their ears. Others were plunged down steep chimneys onto a pile of writhing snakes...
Along the stonewalls and the dusk The cow-paths come up very steep, The cowbells mingle with the bells That ring on reefs out on the deep...
...line. Also from East Prussia went a column aimed at Mlawa and Pultusk. Based on Breslau, a many-headed fourth Nazi onslaught was launched toward Lodz, Kielce and Cracow. Based on Bratislava in Slovakia, a fifth and sixth spearhead were driven up through the Jablonka Pass and over the steep Tatras to the East. Radomska, Czestochowa, Katowice, Teschen and Nowy Targ were the first targets of these southwestern assaults. German commanders claimed to be taking all objectives "on schedule," while the Polish defenders reported repeated counterattacks and recaptures...
World War I came as a severe shock to U. S. business. World War II, following a full year of alarms and a fortnight of intense crisis, was no shock. There was no selling panic, no steep drop in prices. The Dow-Jones industrial average of 30 industrial stocks which had dropped almost 7 points to 135.11 in the week ending August 19 oscillated without great excitement. Its low was 133.31 on August 24. Then it began to climb as war became a virtual certainty...
When U. S. auto production started down hill last spring there was a steep and slippery grade ahead. With all four wheels locked, the industry slithered down from a top weekly production of 90,280 (at the end of March) and skidded to a dismal pace of 32,445 (during the first week in May). Instead of crashing at the bottom, the motor industry stepped on the throttle, succeeded in topping an unexpected rise to 81,070 a week by the end of June...