Word: dipping
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...provide--and see in them an opportunity to get to know a small group of people fairly intimately. Academically, according to a tabulation made some years ago by Dean Watson's office, Club members are about on a par with the college norm, except for a rather horrifying dip during the punching season...
...market got another push from the short supply of stocks; mutual funds and other long-term investors have bought so much stock that comparatively small orders push prices up. When waves of profit-taking brought a dip, new buyers soon started prices up again, though at week's end the market had eased from the record high...
...anyway? In a roughhewn society that plays as hard as it pioneers, anyone with a yen for variety can leave Vancouver in the morning, go skiing on nearby Grouse Mountain, play golf on the banks of the Fraser in the afternoon, then top off the day with a cooling dip in English...
...impossible not to believe that the "haloed band" did not sense what it was in for. Their parties, Lady Diana says, were "dances of death." On one party, on a chartered boat on the Thames, young Denis Anson thought it would be a good idea to take a dip. He was never seen again. Diana held his watch, and later consoled herself that he probably would have been the first to be killed in the war. It was a scene for the historian -one a novelist would hardly dare to invent...
...biggest user of many raw materials, the U.S. has not only a vested interest but a heavy responsibility in the matter of fluctuating world markets. Any dip in the U.S. economy can mean a big income drop for nations that count heavily on exports to the U.S.-as the U.S. recession proved. Russia's all-out economic war has aggravated the situation, made it more important than ever for the U.S. to help stabilize the free world's metals markets, now suffering from an overproduction stomachache...