Word: drop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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This year's tournament did not earn as much money as the Council expected. The lack of on-campus accommodation caused a drop in the number of competing teams from 160 last year to 100 this year...
...final, Nayar and Terrell fought the first game to 13-13 with fine drop shots and cross-court volleys. In the five point set. Terrell won the first two points before Nayar recovered for an 18-16 win. In the next two games Terrell resorted to a lobbing style that Nayar used for 15-6 and 15-7 victories...
Ominous Click. John was already on the step of the bus when he discovered that he had nothing smaller than a $10 bill. "Off you go, Mac," ordered the driver; alarmed by a rash of bus robberies, the city had decreed that all riders must drop the exact fare into the locked fare box. Drivers were allowed to carry no cash on their person. In desperation, John stepped down and turned to a young woman on the curb to ask for change. "Miss," he began, "could you-" She let him have it with her G-G31 tear-gas device...
...officers who might normally leaven the military with needed intellect and imagination. By faculty vote, ROTC will be stripped of academic credit and relegated to an extracurricular activity at Yale and Harvard. Dartmouth is considering whether to reduce the number of ROTC courses that qualify for credit or to drop credit altogether if ROTC is not moved off campus and limited to summer training camps. Similar recommendations are pending at Cornell and Stanford...
Business at Unity is done in a deliberately casual atmosphere designed to put people at ease. Rock music plays softly from loudspeakers. Bank employees banter with people who just drop in to have a neighborly chat. "We're more than a bank," says Sneed. "If we have to say no to a customer, we say, 'No. Because...