Word: drop
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...showed My Fair Lady, but another slyly screened The Good Soldier Schweik. Svelte bar girls in scalloped miniskirts or skintight trousers flitted through the cocktail lounge at Prague's Esplanade Hotel. The juggler was even back in action at Prague's Tetran club, though he tended to drop more plates than usual...
When Motorola's executive vice president, C. Lester Hogan, quit last month to become president of rival Fairchild Camera & Instrument, he took seven colleagues along with him. Besides suffering a prompt drop in the price of its stock, Motorola began worrying that the mass exodus would mean a loss of trade secrets. Last week it acted. Filing suit in U.S. District Court in Phoenix, Motorola Inc. asked damages against Hogan, his associates and Fairchild, also sought to enjoin Fairchild from hiring away any more...
...manufacture of the machinery of war, man's ingenuity knows few limits. Even now, he is capable of putting orbiting H-bombs into outer space, ready to drop on signal. Tomorrow his navies may be prepared to fight at sea with ships capable of speeds up to 100 knots; his armies may be organized to battle on land with compact, radiation-proof robots...
...Apollo program has also received a boost from scientists at the Jet Pro pulsion Laboratory, who recently discovered the cause of unexpected variations in the altitude and speed of earlier unmanned lunar orbiters. Such flight deviations, which could drop a module several miles off target, were caused by local increases in lunar gravity brought about by areas of dense material beneath the five circular maria, or "seas." The concentrations of mass, called "mascons," may have been caused by the impact of large meteors, which generated enough heat to melt material below the surface of the moon and form regions...
...approved by N.S.A.'s annual congress. But the more significant message of the meeting was its renewed evidence that campus disorders will probably increase rather than abate in the coming school year. As outgoing President Schwartz sees it, the more moderate students are so discouraged that they may drop out of student movements, allowing the radicals to take over. When that happens, anything can happen. "Once a Columbia raises the level of what is acceptable," said Schwartz, "mere demonstrations become innocuous...