Word: downwardly
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...flashed across his broad face. Only two days before, a Gallup poll showed the bluff 6-ft. 6-in. Republican Governor leading his mild-mannered opponent, Adlai Stevenson III, by 16 points. But when Thompson went to bed at 2 Wednesday morning, the corners of his smile had turned downward: he was leading by just over 1%. By midday Thursday, as votes were still being tabulated, he was wearing a full-fledged frown of dismay: with more than 3.5 million votes cast, the once confident Thompson was leading by an infinitesimal 171 votes. He was forced to wait until Friday...
...knew Midwestern football pretty well And Edward Bennett Williams (Holy Cross '41), the millionaire lawyer who owns both the Washington Redskins and the Baltimore Orioles, had noticed Carter out there as well. Both men also knew the football program at Holy Cross had been on a long and winding downward road since its Orange Bowl team...
...Project Equality's organizers, who hope to get not only college but also high-school representatives to agree on detailed competencies and "learning outcomes" for which to strive. If all educators can agree on what students should know, organizers reason, maybe they can at least start swimming against the downward drift...
...cast upon the world for the next 60-odd years of self-portraiture. By 1920 Soyer had a lithographic crayon firmly in hand. With strong, fluid strokes, he sketched a head of singular beauty: a mass of black curls resting on an inverted triangle, the faintly protruding ears pointing downward toward the chin, the eyes shrouded but intent, as always...
...news may not rouse much sympathy from autoor steelworkers, but even big-name casino entertainers are finding it harder to shake the money tree these days. Salaries, which jumped as high as $350,000 a week during the palmy '70s, are quietly being renegotiated downward. Many casinos, in both Las Vegas and Atlantic City, have discovered that they do not need megatalent at all. "Tell me," asks John Jenkins, former co-owner of Vegas' Aladdin, "which of these lousy monkeys is worth $300,000 a week...