Word: nadir
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Higher policy, however, dictated the removal of the air and naval officers. In the succeeding months, U.S.-Soviet relations continued to deteriorate, and reached a nadir when American communists came to Moscow for the Seventh Congress of the Communist International in August, 1935--a patent violation of the agreement of recognition signed less than two years earlier. Ambassador Bullitt was crushed by what he considered a personal defeat as well as a slap in the face to his country. Though he advocated significant reductions in the staff of the Moscow embassy, he once again emphasized the importance of close relations...
Explaining the expected election standards, Dunn said Pete Edelman's Yardling ad "for crudity, lewdity, stewdity" was "as low on the ladder as we will let go by, the nadir." He insisted that material has "get to be clean enough not to offend women and parents...
...enough to constitute a respectable issue. Such a glance evidently was not taken. For with the exception of its single solid offerings, Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam, by F. M. Kimball, the present issue slips downgrade as the reader works his way toward the back, reaching its literary nadir in an excerpt from a novel in progress entitled The Sons of Darkness...
...past week's exhibition should be the nadir of irresponsibly. But only by using his Party leadership can Eisenhower guarantee that the Constitution will be distorted no more, that the responsible behavior will return to cabinet and Congressional committees...
...Staff Dwight D. Eisenhower) to whittle the Marines down to units of regimental size. It had hotly argued with critics who maintained that the A-bomb put its amphibious specialty out of business. And finally, amid the Korean emergency, it had won the right to rebuild from its postwar nadir of 67,000 to a ceiling of 400,000 men, organized in three divisions and three Marine air wings...