Word: plummetted
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Saigon Henry Cabot Lodge and Senate Republican Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen of Illinois. Lodge called such a course "the most dangerous and imprudent" the U.S. could take and equated it with "getting out of West Berlin." Dirksen foresaw that "the rank of the United States in the Orient would plummet" if the U.S. pulled...
...sense of gloom for the entire film, damping even a victory celebration. Darkness pervades the alleys where gleeful soldiers cavort with Cyprian women. The transition of Othello's mind from conscientious administrator to maddened husband is reflected in the darkening of the weather as the Moor's thoughts plummet...
...cash and recruit fresh talent by offering stock options, some of Foote, Cone's competitors were skeptical about letting the investors in. A Young & Rubicam executive thought that the public disclosure of low agency profits would soon disillusion investors. Others felt that an agency's shares would plummet whenever it lost a rich account. But many on Madison Avenue were reconsidering. Said President Rudolph Montgelas of the Ted Bates agency, the nation's fifth largest: "If Foote, Cone is a great success, two or three other agencies may go public next year. But an agency without...
Protesting the school's harsh discipline, some critics want to "democratize" the system by shifting grandes ecoles candidates to the more adult, laxer university. That thought appalls Charles Poignant, the school's censeur (disciplinary head), who fears that standards would plummet. "There is great jealousy of our role," he says, and it delights him. With Premier Pompidou due to lead the birthday party, Censeur Poignant & Co. aim to launch Louis-le-grand on its fifth century in the same old magisterial manner-a place where the elite of the elite meet, and damn the dullards...
...Wild East. Siberia stayed underpopulated so long because newcomers recoiled from the first experience of its immensity and climate: January temperatures plummet to 100° below, while August temperatures soar to 120° above. Nature shaped the land with a grim hand. In prehistoric times, Siberia was a vast ocean, and its topography still resembles that of a shallow sea bottom, raised at the edges by a saucer-rim of mountains, with few barriers against wind or sun. The flat landscape is banded by four distinct regions-the icy northern shelf of the tundra, where nothing grows except moss, lichen...