Word: tailspinning
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...picture . . . shows an obviously worried and harassed ghostlike human being reading TIME. News and data are flowing prismatically into TIME, and from TIME into the figure's head. The portrayal of the head indicates that the reader is in a mental tailspin, and confusing thoughts are shown arising from his brain. [He] is relaxing uncomfortably in an impossible reclining attitude. His le:s are crossed and there is a banana peel under one foot, which he seems likely to slip on when he gets up. An Irish setter is asleep on the floor...
...debate raged on. At week's end the State Department issued the Acheson report (see INTERNATIONAL) which would eventually vest primary control in UNO. Senators were in a tailspin. Hastily they withdrew into their chambers to think it all over again, while Mr. Vandenberg buckled down to write another amendment defining the functions of the military...
Cuba, growing up in the ways of democracy, did not even let the nipped plot throw it into a tailspin. There were no disorders, no swarming of cops and sol diers. Instead, that night a festive crowd marched through the streets of downtown Havana, chanted and cheered outside the President's Palace. They did demand the death of Pedraza...
...investors have long taken a poor and antisocial view of the prospects of peace. Last week, once again, peace rumors sent the stockmarket into a four-day tailspin that left it three points lower than it was after the last big piece of good news-the "surrender" of Italy. Up & down Wall Street's cave of the winds went gusty rumors, each dizzier than the last. Gusts...
...whimsical honor of being Mayor of Gower Gulch. The campaign was promoted by Brewer's so that the clientele would buy more drinks. To vote, you had to write your candidate's name on a cash-register receipt. Business zoomed. But the election almost went into a tailspin when a late starter appeared. The dark horse was a locally beloved dog named Tramp. When the final votes were counted Cowboy Evans nosed out Tramp by only 26 votes...