Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Small. At Chrysler Corp., hardest hit of the big automakers in last year's sales slump, the comeback was equally bouncy. Saddled with a loss for both the second quarter and the entire year...
This year the resentments of the well-to-do are fueled by a $60 million slump in exports (caused mostly by the drop in commodity prices) and new import duties to pay for Trujillo's $5,000,000 arms purchases abroad. But few are willing to jump from passive opposition to active rebellion by joining Trinitaria at home or one of the exile groups abroad. They fear now that revolution might lead to Castro-style measures against themselves...
...tried to touch her in order to make sure that she was real. Rattled Driver Gerini tried to bulldoze his way through the idolaters, succeeded in setting off a stampede, gently bowling over a half-dozen fans. Barefooted and almost heat-prostrated, Anita took advantage of the excitement to slump dramatically into a semicoma...
...baseball history, only two men had ever hit four consecutive home runs in one game. * But one night last week, in Baltimore's vast Memorial Stadium, Cleveland Outfielder Rocco Domenico Colavito stepped out of a batting slump and into the record books with four mighty swings of his 33-oz. bat. His fourth straight homer, a long blast into the left-field bleachers some 410 ft. away, came in the ninth inning off Baltimore Orioles Reliefer Ernie Johnson, who had not allowed a homer all season. What was more, Colavito brought off his feat in a park rated...
While the Crimson pitching has looked better and better as the spring has progressed, the team's hitting--though basically sound--has tailed off somewhat in its last few games. This is likely due, in part, to the bad slump that has recently overtaken third baseman Chet Boulris...