Word: bearish
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...Take It Easy!" Huge and untidy in a rumpled brown suit, Wolfe reminded his companions of a "big, awkward bear." When the beer and liquor flowed, he was anything but bearish, but as the white Ford bounced down steep canyon roads he kept bawling to the driver, "Take it easy!" Crossing Montana towards the end of the trip he saw "suddenly-the tops of the great train lined with clusters of hoboes-a hundred of them-some sprawled out, sitting, others erect, some stretched out on their backs lazily inviting the luminous American weather . . . and the 'bos roll past...
...amazed at your optimism ... I believe that the present position of this bull market is exceedingly dangerous, and I certainly hope that there are a few people in this country who have the common sense to remain bearish...
...experts were still bearish about any hope of posterity. Hybrids- with parents of different species-e.g., mules-are almost always sterile. Since they receive different kinds of chromosomes from their parents, they do not grow into reproductive adults...
...little like a man who was damned if he was going to come down with the flu, even though he already had the sniffles. This week, in the longer, drier sentences of his midyear economic report to Congress, the President frankly admitted that there were some reasons for feeling bearish...
...bears had guessed right only ,six times. Their failure was even more impressive when the short interest was measured in relation to the total volume of trading. In this ratio there were two previous peaks-in 1938 and 1948-as high as last week's. The 1938 bearish peak came just before the market shot up 52 points; the 1948 peak came during a 30-point rise. This moved Wall Street's Francis I. du Pont & Co. to observe last week that the new bearish peak merely means that "Johnny Come Lately is on the bear side...