Word: depress
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Retrenchment would not be accepted without a fight. The restive T.U.C. membership would argue long and harshly over their leaders' counsel. To a Washington estimate that the new economic policy would depress the British standard of living by 4%, a harassed Labor policymaker last week made a grim and exaggerated rejoinder: "Four percent! If only it were 4%-it would be paradise. The ghastly truth is that Washington would be nearer the mark if it said...
...demands of security actually required speed. He ahs ignored Lilientnal's request that names of accused workers be kept from the public by so explicitly describing one atomic scientist that his colleagues could not fail to know him. This sort of thing can only arouse suspicion and further depress morale among already harried AEC personnel...
...That You, Comrade?" As they rode through the gentle, starlit night, Major Ehrgott saw much to depress him: a soldier in the probing point of the column rode a highly visible white horse; there were no security guards riding on the flanks; officers smoked cigarettes, and the men talked loudly. It was a perfect setup for an ambush. But there were no ambushes...
...undergraduates who are candidates for the Bachelor of Arts degree this February balance against the 127 men returning from leave of absence to depress total enrollment below last term's highwater mark of 5600. No new men have been allowed to enter this term...
...result? The principal complaints came from, makers of pottery, watches, handmade glassware and lace; and from the cattle industry. But, according to State, those U.S. enterprises have not really been hurt by lower tariffs. Cattlemen, for example, complained that during 1936 a shipment of Canadian cattle had depressed the Minneapolis market. State countered that large cattle shipments frequently depress markets, locally and temporarily; a shipment from South Dakota might have had the same effect...