Word: slumps
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...during the year. Sir Anthony Eden, whose health is worse than the public realizes, will take a much less part in the British government. Next spring or summer, Red China will begin its long-awaited attack on Quemoy and Matsu. The Matsus will be captured by the Chinese. A slump is due for midyear. However, I predict the Eisenhower Administration will dust off various public works plans reminiscent of Harold Ickes' PWA days. Congress will vote a very modest tax relief for low-income groups only. In midwinter President Eisenhower will announce that he will not run again...
...trainer of Nashua, had fond hopes of Bold Ruler's succeeding his retired champion. Calumet Farm was close to passing up the race. It had a leggy colt named Barbizon, who had won four out of five of his starts, but he seemed to have fallen into a slump. At the last minute, Trainer Jimmy Jones decided to gamble, put up the $10,000 required for last-minute entries and frankly labeled him a long shot. Barbizon, said Jimmy, "reminds me of a big, good-natured country kid who don't know where he left his schoolbooks...
...informal debate before 50 members of the International Relations Club of the Newton College of the Sacred Heart, the two club presidents first concentrated their discussion on the topics of the farm slump, small business failures, the Taft-Hartley Law, and natural resources "giveaways." In the debate on foreign policy and the question period that followed, however, discussion centered around the possibility of stopping H-bomb tests exposions...
...editorial page: "The editorial pages of New York papers, except possibly that of the New York Times, have hit the lowest ebb in all history." He thought that the Chicago Tribune and St. Louis Post-Dispatch were still going strong, but noted a slump in the Baltimore Sun's editorial vigor...
...Crimson soccer team will be out to break a two-game slump this afternoon at 1 p.m. against an underdog Wesleyan eleven at Middletown...