Word: ebb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Cancerous Practice. But around the nation, there are signs that the flood of stamps has reached its crest and is beginning to ebb. Biggest area of discontent is among filling-station operators. Unlike most retailers, who can pass the stamps' cost on to the consumer in higher prices, gas stations have a price-determined product and a low profit margin. For them, the stamp craze has become a nightmare...
...with France's greatness since earliest childhood. He once confided to his aides: "As a child, I loved to play at war. My brothers and I divided up our toy soldiers. Xavier had Italy. Pierre had Germany. And I, gentlemen-I always had France." Even at the lowest ebb of the war, a Free French officer who was poring over a map of occupied Europe heard the general's high, familiar voice at his shoulder: "Wasting your time, mon vieux. You'd do better studying a map of the world." Another officer in London asked De Gaulle...
With investor confidence at its lowest ebb since Dwight Eisenhower's heart attack and Big Board stock prices falling $6 billion in one day's trading, Wall Street last week was a cheerless place for anyone trying to peddle large blocks of stock. So discouraging was the atmosphere that long-scheduled sales of stock in two eminently solid corporations (Kellogg Co. and McGraw-Hill Publishing) were abruptly postponed by the investment bankers underwriting them. But the Street's hard-eyed moneymen took a different view when 430,000 shares of General Motors Corp.* went on the block...
Behind Chiang's expectant, fighting mood is the belief that Red China is seething with revolt and is, in fact, "on the verge of collapse." He is certain that morale on the mainland is at its lowest ebb, cites information relayed by a recently defected Communist MIG pilot and letters received on Formosa from peasants in the coastal province of Fukien who pleaded for liberation. Moreover, argues Chiang, the Sino-Soviet split has be come such a bitter personal rivalry between Mao Tse-tung and Khrushchev that the Soviet leader probably would not run the risk of touching...
...pull by putting Butler in charge, even though Labor Party Leader Hugh Gaitskell loudly denounced it as a ''nonsensical gesture." While not a political maneuver, Macmillan's move inevitably enhanced the political prospects of ''Rab" Butler, whose fortunes had seemed on the ebb last fall when Iain Macleod was moved in as Conservative party chairman and leader of the House...