Word: sagging
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...worst had come to pass: six surveyors, after 260 measurements, gravely announced that there was a 2-in. sag and assorted undulations on a wicket at hallowed Lord's Cricket Ground in London. The sober London Daily Telegraph splashed the unsettling news on Page One, easing Kuwait into the background, while the London Daily Express blared: BY GAD, SIR, IT'S FULL or BUMPS...
Barton freely concedes that Jardines' trade with Red China, which has sagged steadily from the last published figure of $35 million in 1959, is likely to sag even more. Says he: "The immediate outlook for trade with China is discouraging because of natural calamities. This has resulted in China having to spend a great deal on the import of foodstuffs." But he is confident that great new markets still await Jardines in the emergent nations of Southeast Asia. And most old Asia hands, convinced that a prime motive for last week's stock sale was to raise expansion...
...than the First Lady's return to the city she had come to love as a student at the Sorbonne. In two truckloads of presidential luggage was a blinding array of gowns and jewels?and in making her plans. Jackie was keenly conscious of the fact that no tiny sag or hemline or stray strand of hair would escape the notice of the style-conscious people of Paris...
...attack is a thankless task-but the pros do their rugged best. Says Paul Seymour of his St. Louis team's tactics against Robertson: "We pick him up at three-quarters court. We haven't picked up a man back there in years." Alternatively, many teams sag their defense against Robertson to keep him from crashing through the middle...
...worked over messages and reports to Congress. A staff member took a sheaf of papers to the White House living quarters at 11 p.m. and found the President impatiently waiting for the material. After a while, even Jack Kennedy seemed to sag momentarily. "Nixon should have won the election," said he with a weary smile...