Word: slump
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Hevern's fourth place finish was encouraging because he has been in a slump recently. "I threw 48' at the beginning of the year but then fell behind." Hevern said. "I'm using my legs more now, and I think tonight helped me to rebuild my confidence...
Last night a nonchalant, but talented, Pennypacker team routed Matthews South, Athletie director Craig Coit thought that his team might finally break out of its slump last night, but the game was never close...
...beyond promise, beyond middle-age slump, beyond fashion, the clever schoolboy deserves to be read for what he is: an endlessly experimenting, self-revising poet whose true voice is to try all voices, an honestly fluctuating responder to a fluctuating age. City Without Walls, containing poems of the past five years, includes nothing to rank with Auden's best. He appears to be long past the writing of wry love poems like "Lullaby." Perhaps more important, nowhere in this collection does he achieve the delicately blended wit and civilized humanity of "In Praise of Limestone," which...
...funds -funds that invest some or all of their assets in local projects in order to overcome government reluctance to let their citizens send money abroad. Last week, in another precedent-breaking move, I.O.S. began offering its mutual-fund clients insurance against the possibility that in a stock market slump the value of their shares may drop below what they paid for them...
Then came the slump. Clarkson slipped a second goal past Durno at 1:21 and a third at 8:26, but Harvard held on. even in the face of a last-minute penalty...