Word: slid
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...noticed what he calls a "strong technical pattern," predicted an "upside potential" of 34 if the stock got above 14. When it did rise, leveling off around 34, Tabell's chart showed a new potential of 44. American Motors sold as high as 43⅜ by January, then slid back to 25½ before climbing back to 38¼ last week. Tabell admits that charts are far from infallible; often two chartists will arrive at opposite conclusions. Therefore, when a stock attracts Tabell's attention by its price movements, he sends aides to see the company and check...
...style which I had only heard in the movies before." The village chief tried to convince the old man that Launois' motives were dignified, but he had no success. Finally, when the bathers became frightened by the commotion and departed for home, the old man himself undressed and slid into the bath, announcing scornfully that he would "rather die in the tub than have anyone take pictures...
...fiscal year. But they did not become acute until summer. Then Government bonds, which had been providing speculators with fat profits as they rose while interest rates fell (TIME. Aug. 18), went into a slump when interest rates began to climb again with the economic recovery. As bond prices slid, their yields rose. Secretary Anderson found himself in a vicious circle; to sell his securities he had to keep edging up the interest rate. Yet every time he floated a new issue at a higher rate, prices of older issues edged down, making it necessary to put a higher rate...
...Indians left their hammocks and met Christopher Columbus, crying: "Peace, we are friends." A quarter of a century after Columbus' first voyage to the New World, Cuba's gold and precious woods adorned Madrid, and many Indians had died of overwork and by their own hands. Blackbirders slid into Havana harbor with Negro slaves, and on their wretched backs rose an elegant, sugar-based society of stately mansions...
...little cluster of three hamlets that makes up the village of Zichen Zussen Bolder, they still tell an old story about a horseman who was galloping across the fields and suddenly disappeared into the earth, never to be seen again. Six years ago three village houses abruptly slid into the ground. Only last August, on the day of the village fair, the roof of the Catholic church collapsed...