Word: laggard
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Another laggard was the stock market. Dow-Jones industrials have slid some 25 points since reaching an alltime high of 726.53 on Sept. 7, and last week alone the index lost nearly 15 points, closing at 701.57. While the week's decline stemmed largely from the U.N. crisis and the instinctive tendency of amateurs (but not professionals) to sell in time of danger, there were deeper reasons behind the longer-range falloff. Most Wall Street analysts agreed that investors had already discounted the present degree of economic recovery, were now waiting for another broad-based and dramatic economic surge...
Despite the laggard rails, the general feel ing of traders on Wall Street is that the Dow-Jones industrials will soon have an other try at topping their all-time high...
...friend, Representative Frank ("Fearless") Thompson Jr., a handsome, hard-driving New Jersey Congressman who matches Bobby's own energy and relentless single-mindedness. Working around the clock and country, Frank Thompson has spent $100,000 on the program, recruiting 200,000 door-to-door canvassers to goad laggard voters into the registration centers. He stalks his workers mercilessly, personally spot-checking their screenings of the election districts and frequently uncovering bypassed Democrats...
...issue, the race problem, neither paper has shown any inclination to copy the Press's boldness. The Chronicle generally temporizes, the Post-run by onetime WAC commander Oveta Gulp Hobby-usually maintains editorial silence. This month, when Federal District Judge Ben C. Connally ordered the city's laggard school board to step up the rate of public-school integration, only the Chronicle and the Press editorialized on his decision. The Chronicle was mild and vague: "It is hoped that all citizens will cooperate." The Press said: "Judge Connally's order is one with which...