Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...odds are strongly against the Pirates realizing their full potential. Which is not to say that anyone played over his head in 1960, but that with the exception of Bob Skinner, Roberto Clemente, and Dick Groat, the Pirates are good only at their best. An injury in May, a slump in July, and Pittsburgh will find itself far off the pace...
Throughout these early moments, Sternberg prepares for the eventual fall. Rath gets up the first morning and discovers his canary dead. As his cook throws the corpse in the fire, his shoulders slump dejectedly. It is no coincidence that an artificial bird circles Lola Lola's head when Rath first hears her sing, nor that later on, after their first night together, her canary awakens them...
...transplaned Twins somebody on which they can at last found an infield. Harmon Killebrow is for real; he proved it last year with 31 homers after a late year start. Jim Lemon can hit for distance, Lennie Green for average, and Bob Allison, who should recover from sophomore slump, for both. Earl Battey is the best catcher in the A.L., and Camilio Pascual and Pedro Ramos are two of the top huriers...
...confidence in the recession's end spreads, much of the boost will come from businessmen curtailing their inventory liquidation, the biggest factor in the G.N.P. slump. In the next quarter, the rate of inventory liquidation is expected to ease to about $2 billion, providing a solid lift for the economy. But that turnaround would not be as great as in 1958, when the inventory rate swung from minus $7 billion in the first quarter to plus $3 billion in the fourth. Nor do economists look for any strong spurt in housing starts, which have helped pave...
...with gale force. Florida, ending one of its balmiest winters in history, last week greeted the spread of spring across the North with remarkable equanimity. Once the northward exodus of tourists in the springtime rated with the hurricanes as a natu ral catastrophe, inevitably followed by a summer-long slump. Now Florida is the focus of a permanent population shift that has made it the fastest-growing state in the Union and a bustling, year-round center of industry, commerce and building...