Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...said to myself, 'Something is going to be happening here.' I saw nothing more of any policemen until there was a shot fired and as soon as that shot was fired I dropped behind the wooden part of the counter. I was in a holdup one time in Detroit when a man was cut in half with a tommy-gun and at that time the police told me the only thing to do at a time like that is drop to the floor and stay there...
...spend an evening watching a wrestling match or sitting in on a game of bridge or poker, which he plays expertly, with considerable bluffing. He likes to be where his hosts of bigwig friends are com ing & going, where cronies like Joseph Tumulty, Marvin Mclntyre and Steve Early can drop in on him and Mrs. Harri son at their pleasant home on Cathedral Avenue. But Pat Harrison currently yearns to get away from all this as soon as he can because he is facing his first serious campaign for re-election since he went to the Senate 17 years...
...Have you thought of the possibility of a foreign invader's seizing important points from the air? I don't mean an invasion of airplanes which drop bombs, but whether it isn't possible to land from the air substantial forces, which in a country where few people are armed might seize important points...
...additional office space and commercial buildings, the third and final phase of a great boom. "Soon after the peak in commercial building is reached, the feverish activity of the boom will subside," says Mr. Wenzlick. "This period is probably ten years distant. Vacancies will again increase and rents will drop. All indices will again turn sharply downwards...
...skirts. It's a damn good thing. I mean I was mad would have spanked the little pickanninny's bottom. But the matron was forbidding; I mean she was a big woman. And she was kindly; that is she patted the pickanniny's head; and the little chocolate drop sobbed she was sorry. And my heart softened. I mean I actually took her for a piggy back ride; and her brown arms were tight around me; I mean she was scared. And she sniffled on my neck. I mean her warm tears still came. I mean I too was sorry...