Word: droops
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...uneasiness about the nation's technological lead over Russia was uneasiness about the economy. Total personal income in the U.S. had sagged in both September and October, the first two-month decline since the post-Korea recession of 1953-54, and most other economic indexes show signs of droop (see BUSINESS...
Psychology & Sputnik. The uneasy sign in the nation's economic picture is not the statistical droop but the mood. If too many consumers postpone purchases out of worry, shrinkage in sales may bring on a real recession. "Psychology," says Vice President Dr. Arthur A. Smith of Dallas' First National Bank, "is the joker in the economy's deck of cards...
...remember that last year's winner was the toy poodle Ch. Wilber White Swan; for a toy to win twice in a row was unlikely. The cocky Airedale, Westhay Fiona of Harham, stumbled and broke gait. The Dalmatian, Ch. Roadcoach Roadster, defied show-ring manners with the curving droop of its tail. But through all the long interlude, the long-haired, silver-blue Afghan stayed cool and aloof, a champion without pause...
...equipped with wing-shaped gyrofins, which cut down roll from 7½° to a barely perceptible .4°. Among the ship's other refinements: a giant, airfoil-shaped sonar dome beneath the keel that will measure ship's speed (and which has already earned the nickname "droop snoot...
...playwright himself is partly responsible, for his characters droop around a not-quite-real terrace in Southern France far too long before they begin to explain and find themselves by re-living scenes from their lives. Barrie does handle these reenactments, however, with intriguing mergings of the real and dream world--a girl friend becomes a mother in one re-experience, men become boys in another. Such projections out of reality are made into stimulating, fresh moments by the acting...