Word: downwards
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Colombia. But one year later Rojas' tragic flaw-the strongman's inability to accept criticism-began to show through. With a heavy hand he began censoring newspapers, finally suppressed Bogotá's two leading dailies, El Tiempo and El Espectador. From there his path led only downward. His soldiers and cops shot down political opponents and students. By spending uncounted millions on arms and post-exchange luxuries aimed at keeping his military supporters loyal, he used up most of the coffee-prosperous country's-gold reserves and ran up an exorbitant foreign-trade debt. As Colombia...
...damn silly plays," she breathes soon after their blackout. Still brilliant in her next scene, she is unfortunately confronted with a gawking performance by John Wolfson, who seems uneasy in his role as a slightly dimwitted, uneasy Count. The final scene, The Count and the Prostitute, is a step downward from the style of Miss Jeffries...
...Down. The X-17 is a three-stage missile powered by solid-propellant rocket motors built by Thiokol Chemical Corp. While the large, first-stage motor is burning, it climbs upward like any other missile. After coasting without power to an undisclosed but probably moderate altitude, it turns nose downward and starts to fall back to earth. Then the second-and third-stage rockets fire. Aided instead of opposed by gravity, they drive it to enormous speed...
...show, which became a national institution after the war, and the slick pages of Vogue, showing only what Edna Chase deemed acceptable, remade the nation's clothing industry. American manufacturers suddenly discovered a healthy market for mass-produced versions of the best models. Said Publisher Nast: "Taste percolated downward...
...accounting for one-third of the average family's expenditures-balanced declines of other prices. And what happened in 1956, when the cost-of-living index zipped up a worrisome 3%, was that non-goods prices kept on rising, while prices of food and manufactured goods reversed their downward trend and inched upward...