Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...years Radcliffe sophomores have cited the sophomore slump to pacify parents, appease tutors, diagnose roommates--and try to cope with their own emotional upheavals. Recently, the Rules committee of RGA considered the sophomore slump an agument against extending junior and senior social rules to sophomores. But describing the slump proves considerably more difficult than invoking...
Died. Grant Stockdale, 48, Miami real estate broker and early Kennedy-for-President booster, who was appointed ambassador to Ireland in March 1961 in recognition of campaign work and generous party donations, but was forced to resign after serious reverses in the May 1962 stock market slump, after which increasing nervous strain left him unable to cope with the news of the President's assassination; by his own hand (defenestration); in Miami...
Careful Downplay. Despite such potential roadblocks, the decision was hailed by railroaders, whose fortunes are improving after a long slump. From 1955 to 1961 the profits of the 102 Class I railroads sagged from $921 million to $382 million. In the past year or so, however, the railroads have begun to hum along again. This year their revenues will rise 2% to $9.6 billion, and profits will jump 10% to a six-year high of $630 million...
Members of the rules committee reportedly feel that sophomores are not prepared to handle the responsibilities entailed by unlimited late permissions. They may point to the "sophomore slump" as an example of the problems encountered in the second year of college...
Afterwards, however, Ralston's game seemed to slump. He lost sets to several unheard-of players in the U.S. championships, then was defeated in the quarterfinals by Brasil's Ronnie Barnes. Froehling murdered Barnes the next day, giving him seven games in three sets...