Word: sagging
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...times into near-fatal lethargy. In Jubilee (Atlantic-Little, Brown), a 100th anniversary winnowing of Atlantica published this week, Editor Weeks says that his magazine has survived because it has "changed editors more frequently than any other magazine in our field." Says Weeks: "Whenever the circulation began to sag, a younger mind was brought...
Aboard ship there are no signs of acting, but the movie does sag a bit into detect able histrionics when Akim Tamiroff, as a cunning Red warlord, shows up as a negotiator and puts on a dazzling display of inscrutability. The months wear on, and Lieut. Commander Todd begins to understand the superiority of spit to polish. At last, with the courage of a heart made whole, Todd runs the battered vessel past artillery-lined riverbanks on a wild, 140-mile nighttime dash to sea. It is all history now, but the capable direction of Michael (Around the World...
...sag was general from Chicago to Singapore, hit everything from oats to onions. Hide prices fell to a postwar low, cast-aluminum scrap fell one-half under last spring to 14? a lb., rubber futures fell as much as 80 to 120 points as Singapore traders trimmed inventories...
...more than 50% greater than the 1956 loss. Set against this improvement was the fact that overall sales were down from $99.2 million in the first three months of fiscal 1956 to $88.9 million this year. Nash and Hudson had so far sold only 9,166 cars, a 35% sag in volume despite price cuts as deep...
...bootleggers buy whisky wholesale in such outlets as Joplin, Mo. or Dallas, have the cases broken down into "lugs" (packages) of three fifths or six pints each for easier handling, load the lugs into stock cars with heavy-duty rear springs (so the cops cannot detect any telltale sag). They use whatever they believe is the fastest new car available (Oldsmobiles this year in preference to their longtime favorite, Mercurys), or fit used cars with Cadillac engines. Some still prefer the old technique of concealing a hundred or more cases under the hay of a cattle truck...