Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...higher prices-as had happened when meat and other foods went off control. But they also expected that after the first upward surge, prices generally would come back to reasonable levels-as they had on most foods (the Bureau of Labor Statistics wholesale food index showed a 5.5% drop in the last two weeks...
...brilliant quarterback, Johnny Lujack. As a spectacle it was dull: two superdefenses canceling each other out. The question of which was the nation's top team was not decided, only put off. It remained to be seen whether either team, having given its all, might now drop a game to a lesser opponent and thus give fans a chance to crown a champ by defaultl
...from a bottle under controlled pressure; transfusion stops automatically when the blood pressure reaches normal. ¶ It requires less blood (some dogs regained normal blood pressure after 20% of their drained blood was returned). ¶ It gives a quick check on internal hemorrhage: if arterial pressure continues to drop after transfusion starts, the doctor knows that the patient is bleeding somewhere, and that he must operate immediately to tie off the bleeding vessels...
...stockmarket, confident of Republican victory, had gone up over 10 points (Dow-Jones industrial averages) in the four days before election. But when victory came, the market fell, the worst drop in two months. Commodity prices fell also. Probable reasons: short-term speculators read G.O.P. talk of a big U.S. budget cut as a deflationary measure, grabbed their profits. They ignored talk of the corollary tax cut, which, by putting more cash in the hands of consumers, would help business all around...
Blood donors' sentiments were largely summed up by an entry in the comment book provided for them that enthused, "If I could have the same nurse all afternoon, I'd go to the last drop...