Word: ebb
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Boom Time. The Depression, being the low ebb of U.S. capitalism, was naturally enough the boom time of intellectual commerce between the Kremlin and the U.S. Party Leader Earl Browder could declare with a straight face that "Communism is 20th century Americanism," and half the leading U.S. writers believed him. The aging Lincoln Steffens could return from Russia declaring "I have seen the future, and it works." It was the time of the fellow traveler, and among the famous fellows who traveled were Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos and Theodore Dreiser...
...chained, humiliated, sick with fear; we are at our lowest ebb." With these words, France's existentialist philosopher and left-wing propagandist, Jean-Paul Sartre, donned the mantle of doom for his countrymen.* Describing the much-discussed crisis of conscience confronting France as a result of the Algerian war, Sartre coined a new expression, "involution" -a tragic process by which the former colonizers adopt the savagery of the native lands they once colonized...
...said--and on the front page in large type. Over several centuries, Harvard has stood for one thing if for nothing else--integrity. I, for one, consider this sort of mud slinging to be inexcusable and unworthy of any representative of Harvard. I also think it marks the lowest ebb in my experiences in CRIMSON editorial responsibility. Let every officer of the CRIMSON bear in mind that tolerance of such greasy practices reflects on them as well as on Lottman. When does freedom of expression become license? When will the CRIMSON regain its proper status as being a reasonable representation...
Fortnight ago, a Gallup Poll of Canada reported the Tories at their lowest ebb since their '58 sweep, and Nobel Peace Prizewinner Lester ("Mike") Pearson's resurgent Liberals sprinting ahead. The standings on Gallup's fever chart: Liberals, 43%; Tories, 37%. Way down on the chart with 12%, but making headway: ex-Saskatchewan Premier T. C. Douglas' New Democratic Party. It was formed last summer, on the rough model of Britain's Labor Party, by a marriage between the old socialist CCF Party and the 1,150,000-member Canadian Labor Congress...
Labor's escape from the wilderness coincides with Prime Minister Harold Macmillan's steady decline from his 1959 popularity peak, when prosperity, his confrontation with Khrushchev, and a top London advertising agency all burnished the image of "MacWonder." At their lowest ebb since the election ("this valley of sluggishness," Gaitskell called it), the Conservatives are trailing five full points behind Labor's Gallup-estimated hold on 37-5% of the population. Few expect a general election much before the government's term runs out in 1964. But Hugh Gaitskell, as his foes ruefully testify...