Word: nadir
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lack of money, scores of communities put off plans for needed schools, parks and highways. Thousands of prospective home buyers were compelled to postpone their dreams to another year; the cost of mortgage loans climbed to 6½% or more, and construction of housing plunged 19% to a postwar nadir. Tens of thousands of investors shifted their money out of stocks and into higher-yielding bonds, Government securities and savings accounts; the stock market skidded 25% from February to October and, despite a recent rally, is still 20% below its early-year high...
...after another reported in recent weeks, the U.S. was gaining steadily on the battlefront. The Harris poll showed that the stepped-up bombing raids on Hanoi and Haiphong were endorsed by 5 out of every 6 Americans. And ratings of the President's own popularity, after hitting a nadir of 46% in May, had curved robustly upward (to 55% ). So why was Lyndon Johnson so out of sorts...
...Alabama, or a woman awaiting deportation to Siberia in Stalinist Russia, but why should we go outside our own country?" Kadar's genius, however, consists in focusing upon Britko, the best of the typical villagers. When Britko finally breaks down, the social order of the village has reached its nadir...
...Many of your readers are grateful for and enriched by your Essays. But in "On War as a Permanent Condition" [Sept. 24], you have reached the nadir of human diplomacy and endeavor...
...troops the U.S. pours into South Viet Nam, the greater the danger of runaway inflation, an in visible enemy that could prove as disastrous to the country as military defeat. Last week, as the fighting reached a new peak (see THE NATION) and the economy neared its nadir, Washington dispatched its top economic trouble-shooter to Saigon: former World Bank Boss Eugene Black, now Lyndon Johnson's special envoy for Southeast Asian development. Black's mission is to expand and refine U.S. aid to South Viet Nam so that the economy will not go under...