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doldrums
The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
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doldrums, the belt of low pressure that extends 5° to 10° either side of the equator in a region known as the Intertropical Convergence Zone. The doldrums were notorious in the days of sail, because vessels could become becalmed there for many days and even weeks. This equatorial belt of windlessness and calm is often hot and sultry, so subject to violent thunderstorms and heavy rain. Being in the doldrums has now become synonymous with being listless, depressed, and generally stuck in a rut.
M. V. Angel
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Wild Cup finish: Summer Doldrums edges Strike a Deal to win the Colonial Turf Cup and possibly set up a Virginia Derby meeting.
Newspaper article from: Daily Press (Newport News, VA); 6/17/2007; 700+ words
; ...is needed. Strike a Deal and Summer Doldrums, a pair of Kentucky-bred colts, fortunately...Round 3 of the Strike a Deal-Summer Doldrums rivalry, it will take something special...their first two blockbuster hits. Summer Doldrums beat Strike a Deal on Saturday by a head...
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It's Summer time in Round 2: Summer Doldrums edges out Strike a Deal to win the Colonial Turf Cup and possibly set up a third meeting in next month's Virginia Derby.
Newspaper article from: Daily Press (Newport News, VA); 6/16/2007; 700+ words
; ...is needed. Strike a Deal and Summer Doldrums, a pair of Kentucky-bred colts, fortunately...Round 3 of the Strike a Deal-Summer Doldrums rivalry, it will take something special...their first two blockbuster hits. Summer Doldrums beat Strike a Deal on Saturday by a head...
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Summer Doldrums Shakes Spring Funk and Wins the Colonial Turf Cup
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/22/2008; ; 656 words
; ...this past winter when his colt Summer Doldrums won the Whirlaway Stakes at Aqueduct...Churchill Downs. Unsure where Summer Doldrums belonged, Violette took a chance on...performance, Violette shipped Summer Doldrums to Colonial Downs for the Grade III...
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Summer Doldrums Takes First Step in Grand Slam
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/17/2007; ; 653 words
; ...this past winter when his colt Summer Doldrums won the Whirlaway Stakes at Aqueduct...Churchill Downs. Unsure where Summer Doldrums belonged, Violette took a chance on...performance, Violette shipped Summer Doldrums to Colonial Downs for the Grade III...
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Lack of doldrums will bring Whitbread yachts to Florida early
News Wire article from: AP Online; 3/24/1998; ; 577 words
; ...biggest challenge would be getting past the doldrums _ an area near the equator known for...their sails. ``They ran through the doldrums with wind,'' said Ralph Marrinson...Whitbread Race America Inc. ``The doldrums didn't do what they were supposed to...
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MacArthur in the doldrums, but victory beckons
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/30/2001; ; 700+ words
; SHE MAY have been deep in the doldrums but the British sailing prodigy Ellen...zone of the Atlantic known as the doldrums, where she was waiting to catch...bang slap in the middle of the doldrums." The Briton's position - vying...
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Fear keeps workers in the doldrums.(Business)(Business books)
Newspaper article from: Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL); 12/9/2007; 700+ words
; ...Jim Pawlak Escape the Mid-Career Doldrums by Marcia Worthing and Charles Buck...do things must change. To escape the doldrums some will need to do things differently...it's mandatory. Most caught in the doldrums believe that many years of experience...
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Malveaux At Large: August Doldrums, September Urgency
Newspaper article from: Sun Reporter, The; 8/16/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...16-2001 Malveaux At Large: August Doldrums, September Urgency Summertime, and...convenes again in September, when August doldrums become September urgencies. There will...to be affected by the nations August doldrums most of the time. To be sure, we can...
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Sailing prodigy in the doldrums, but glory beckons
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/30/2001; ; 700+ words
; SHE MAY have been deep in the doldrums but the British sailing prodigy Ellen...zone of the Atlantic known as the doldrums, where she was waiting to catch...bang slap in the middle of the doldrums." The Briton's position - vying...
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Racing through the doldrums They are in the Doldrums.
Newspaper article from: Grimsby Telegraph; 10/11/2007; 432 words
; They are in the Doldrums. The crew of the Hull And Humber Clipper...Telegraph: "So it seems we are in the Doldrums, although the sailing has been so lively...actually moving seem like a bonus. "The Doldrums are a bit of a milestone for us, because...
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doldrums
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to Ships and the Sea
doldrums, the belt of low pressure that extends...the Intertropical Convergence Zone. The doldrums were notorious in the days of sail, because...thunderstorms and heavy rain. Being in the doldrums has now become synonymous with being listless...
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Atmospheric Circulation
Encyclopedia entry from: UXL Encyclopedia of Science
...cross-surface winds. Early mariners called this area the doldrums (from an Old English word meaning dull) because they feared...travel in a curved path over the surface of a spinning body. Doldrums: Region of the equatorial ocean where winds are light and...
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trade winds
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...pressure in these belts forces air to move toward a belt of low air pressure along the equator called the doldrums . The air converging at the doldrums rises high over the earth, recirculates poleward, and sinks back toward the earth's surface in...
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Deutsches Theater
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to the Theatre
...the Neues Theater with a band of young actors trained in his own methods. After the First World War the theatre was in the doldrums, but it revived somewhat under Heinz Hilpert (1890–1967), who from 1934 to 1944 managed the theatre with complete...
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Shipbuilding
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History
...costs, and the growth of foreign‐built and foreign‐flagged vessels kept commercial shipbuilding in the doldrums. By the 1990s less than 5 percent of U.S. imports and exports were carried in American‐flagged bottoms. Naval...
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