Word: dip
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Scheduled to play three singles and six doubles matches, the Crimson team had to dip into the junior varsity lineup to fill its ranks. Captain Lissa Muscatine said after the match, "A varsity team carries at the most eight players and usually about six or seven. We had to use 15 to play this meet...
...turn preceded Benjamin Franklin and the hordes of Quakers who turned this tri-meet into a blitzkrieg. Four additional Columbia runners also made an appearance at the finish line before the next Harvard runner, Jeff Campbell, arrived, and in so doing, guaranteed the Crimson's second double dip in four days...
This past weekend the Baltimore Orioles lost any hope for the American League pennant with a double dip to the New York Yankees in Shea Stadium. The stolid people of Baltimore, who have always counted on their team's stretch drive to victory, probably blame their failure on the collapse in New York. The sanguine fans of Boston probably ascribe the Orioles' downfall to a two-game series in the beginning of September, when the Red Sox smoked the Orioles twice in Baltimore...
...Costly Dip. With so much riding on North Sea oil, each government is moving to make sure it gets its share of the riches. Britain has been plagued as much as any other European nation by the quintupled price of Middle Eastern crude, on which it is so dependent. Yet, ironically, it now has a stake in high world oil prices. Britain's North Sea oil is about 15 times more expensive to develop than Middle Eastern crude, so even a dip of a dollar or two in the world oil price, to $11 or $12 per bbl., could...
...automen say that the key to recovery is a rise in confidence among consumers that it is safe to go into debt to buy a new car. The carmakers have thus been troubled by the recent spurt in interest rates and a midsummer dip in polls measuring consumer confidence. But many Wall Street analysts believe that American motorists cannot sit on their wallets much longer. By some estimates, nervous consumers have put off buying 4 million cars over the past two years, creating a reservoir of demand that Detroit could well begin to tap with its 1976 models...