Word: nadir
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...were immediate cries of triumph from labor and its backers. By the next morning, however, the smoke had cleared sufficiently to reveal one depressing fact: the Taft-Hartley statue was still on the books. As long as it says there, we haven't come back very far from the nadir of June, 1947, when the law was passed...
...MacLeish, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1932 for a strong and gorgeous narrative poem on the conquest of Mexico (Conquistador), began, in the middle '30s, to write poetic manifestoes of state in which the oratorical interest outgrew the poetic. Moreover, both kinds of interest deteriorated, reaching a nadir in a thin book of thin versified prattle called America Was Promises, in 1939. In that year MacLeish had accepted the first of a series of public offices: that of Librarian of Congress. He also became successively head of the Office of Facts and Figures, assistant director of OWL Assistant...
...except for a slight rally in the 1938-39, a continued decline persisted to the nadir of 1,249 at the time when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor...
Select some hot, humid Monday in late June or early July, when man's faith in man reaches its perspiring nadir, to publicize "The Biggest Damn Fool of the Year...
...kilograms) to supply 15 times the world's legitimate needs. In Peiping, Tientsin and other cities, the Japs opened hundreds of opium dens with signs proclaiming "Good Taste . . . High Quality . . . Comfortable Beds." They peddled narcotic patent medicines for females, narcotic candy for children. Degradation reached a nadir in Mukden's red-light alleys, where dying addicts were commonly dumped on rubbish heaps...