Word: tailspin
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...approval of the House's $56 billion appropriation for the armed forces in fiscal 1952. But when the Senators also voted to shove another $5 billion into the hands of Defense Secretary Marshall for what was described only as "additional air power," they threw the capital into a tailspin of speculation...
...enrollment tailspin could also close some House or Yard dorms, he explained--the College still doesn't know which. During the last war, most of the civilian College students lived in the Yard...