Word: slumping
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...paintings and sculpture, Degas captured these "rats" both graceful in mid-performance and in their less alluring offstage moments, as they turned dumpy and slump-shouldered tying their slipper laces or trudging heavily on their heels. ("After all, have you ever dated a dancer?" a modern critic of Degas' regularly asks his modern art classes. "I once did, and believe me, their legs are as thick as tree trunks and they eat, why they eat like horses...
Junior strongman Ed Ajootian broke out of his slump--if you can call 59- and 60-ft. throws a slump--with a 63-ft. 2 3/4- in. toss in the 35-lb. weight throw to defeat two tough opponents...
Pretty terrible? No, just terribly misleading. Actually, the growth picture is bright. Although the overall figures do not reflect the fact, the U.S. economy was in a true slump only in September and October. There was a strong rebound in the gross national product in November and December, led by an upsurge in spending by individual consumers. The fourth-quarter G.N.P. would have appeared much healthier except for a statistical accident. The jump in consumer buying was not matched right away by more spending by businessmen because they were still selling goods they had on the shelf...
...Corcoran (158 lbs.) stayed mired in his surprising slump, wrestling defensively and hesitantly on the way to a disappointing...
Whenever he can, Carter will return to Plains. The change that sweeps over him when he gets home is actually physical. As he strides the fields that he knew as a boy, his shoulders slump as though he were carrying buckets of water, and he walks with the weary, plodding stride of a plowman...