Word: plummetted
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Nearly everyone these days has fantasized about the ultimate bank failure or Dow Jones plummet. The solution: a ready supply of cash or jewelry. But where can they be secreted? At the back of a picture? Too obvious. In the toilet tank? Too amateurish. In a loose floorboard? Too melodramatic. Into this paranoid quandary steps Krotz with a toolbox full of solutions...
...LISTEN to the Kennedy Library Corporation statements about why the museum will not be built in Harvard Square, the blood pumps, the jaws drop and the tears plummet. It appears that at last the Kennedys and all other powerful outside interest involved with the museum were stopped cold by a few humble neighborhood groups. When Stephen Smith, head of the corporation, said two weeks ago that it would not be "in keeping with the nature of this memorial for it to open in an atmosphere of discord and controversy" he signalled a rash of jubilation and community congratulations reminiscent...
...threshold of atomic prowess. That prospect alone filled many Indians with pride this week and helped bolster Mrs. Gandhi's strike-embattled administration (TIME, May 20). Yet many others argued that nuclear bombs will have no effect on the economic ills of a country where incomes continue to plummet and prices rise faster than a mushroom cloud. As a Hindustan Times editorial observed last week: "A nuclear bang, albeit peaceful, means little without a corresponding release of economic and political energy...
...governments at all last week in Italy and Belgium. In France, isolated and ailing President Georges Pompidou did little to restore confidence in his ability to govern by a largely cosmetic Cabinet reshuffling. In Bonn, Chancellor Willy Brandt, increasingly distant and indecisive, has seen his party's popularity plummet to its lowest level since 1957. In Britain, Prime Minister Harold Wilson has scraped into office with an avowed distaste for his country's membership in the European Economic Community...
...Nixon resigned, the stock market would plummet, the value of the dollar would nosedive, America's international image would be more battered, the risks of worldwide confrontations would zoom...