McGlinchy walked Todd Pratt on five pitches and fell behind the slumping Ventura. Starting pitcher Art Mahaffey was slumping badly. He was shot in the arm and head, left slumping against the fireplace but alive. When heavy rainfall occurred, it caused new slumping, starting about 1956. Before complete drainage, lake edges recede through retrogressive thaw slumping and subaerial debris flows. In other areas liquefaction, sand boils, landslides, and soil slumping occurred. He started in center field against the Philadelphia Phillies in place of a slumping Jones. By the mid-1980s, Mustang sales were slumping. Synsedimentary folds are those due to slumping of sedimentary material before it is lithified. Byrne revitalized the slumping title with his run. Both factors increase the rate of slumping. After a few slumping seasons, McCarthy was fired early in 1946. Slumping over closes one off to others. Eventually, Johnston's staff members noticed him slumping in his saddle. She was in a semi-conscious state, slumping forward on the front seat.