Word: downward
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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While most economic indexes were, unhappily, edging downward, the cost of living, just as unhappily, was still edging upward. Last week the Bureau of Labor Statistics reported that the consumer price index went up 0.2% during February to a new inflation high of 122.5 (vindex of 100 in 1947-49). Sharpest rise in the recession month's inflation was the advance of 0.4% in food prices, caused mostly by fresh fruit and vegetable shortages after the harsh winter freeze in Florida and the Deep South. Food prices are not likely to head downward, said the Bureau of Labor Statistics...
...play electronic bingo on the daily show, a viewer had to pick a listed phone number and write the five digits out under the letters BINGO. Then each figure was extended downward consecutively for five rows. If a player picked 7-1091, his bingo card would look like this...
...came a batch of earnings reports last week for the fourth quarter of 1957, the first quarter of the dip. The trend in most cases was downward, but like the economy itself, the reports added up to a mixture of good and bad. Even in cases where fourth-quarter earnings fell, the fall was often not great enough to prevent the company from totting up record earnings for the year...
...find myself upon a constant downward slope...
...What Westerners think of as the slanting set of Orientals' eyes cannot be entirely changed by minor surgery, but it becomes less conspicuous after the eyelid operation; by exposing more of the eyeballs, the operation makes the eyes seem rounder and bigger, also forces the eyelashes from slanting downward to pointing upward. Within a couple of days, Tomiko was telling her friends: "You've got to go, too. It's so simple, it's almost unbelievable...