After two decades and more in the doldrums, the grey skies were clearing. Calm periods within the doldrums could strand ships for days or weeks. The trade winds of both hemispheres meet at the doldrums. Directly under the subtropical ridge are the doldrums, or horse latitudes, where winds are lighter. It was a significant year as European racing gradually came out of the doldrums. Some, such as Joan Collins, were in their mid-career doldrums when they worked with Amicus. Thurles Sarsfields bounced back in 1929 after an eleven-year period in the doldrums. It is located in the Intertropical Convergence Zone ("Doldrums"), with its fickle weather patterns. The doldrums did not last forever, however. They, too, were an old-line NFL franchise coming off many years in the doldrums. Tropical waters, displaced by North-North-Easterly-moving currents above the Doldrums, enter the North Atlantic Current. By the early 1960s, the fusion research community was in the "doldrums". In the doldrums, Phillip was forced to ration the water to three pints a day. British cinema generally bubbled in the doldrums. Comparative history, by which his approach is often categorised, has been in the doldrums.