Word: drop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...votes cast, necessitating a run-off election on June 15. His opponent then will be Interim President Alain Poher, and that, too, had been anticipated. What was unexpected was Poher's failure to get more than a quarter of the votes cast. It was a sharp drop in his earlier support, and it appeared largely due to the strong, late showing of Communist Jacques Duclos, an ebullient campaigner who more than doubled his initially expected share of the vote. With virtually all the returns counted on election night, Pompidou had a strong 44% of the tally, Poher only...
...With the exception of strategic goods, such as armaments and fissionable materials, the U.S. should drop its trade embargo, which makes little sense now that U.S. allies like Japan, West Germany, Britain and France are trading with the mainland. The Chinese regard the mere existence of the embargo as a hostile act; its removal could be interpreted as a conciliatory gesture. In view of China's limited industrial capabilities and shortage of foreign exchange, such trade would be modest in any case-perhaps up to $10 million a year initially, rising to possibly $100 million after five years...
Without a false drop of sentimentality, the author lets Father Conroy die as he lived: an absurd misfit. Power can afford the risk, and not just because he is so brilliantly in control of his story. In his Irish bones, he knows something that many writing contemporaries do not understand: that failure is, in fact, the natural state of man. Converting chronic self-pity into the beginnings of self-awareness, Power proves himself, if not quite a tragedian, at least a master alchemist at producing final honor from final defeat...
...remember my freshman year when I almost transferred after hearing that Harvard was going to drop football (it turned out to be a false Dart-mouth press release). Now I'm glad I stayed. I've found out that there are a lot of other things besides sports-my interests have broadened," Wynne said...
...pitching strength is his speed and his variety of pitches. "He has a good an assortment of pitches as any college pitcher we've seen in a long time." Park said. Relying on a lively fastball, Kalinoski confuses the batter with a slider, curve, change-up, and a drop ball that he saves as a strikeout pitch...