Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...should like to suggest that the United Nations drop the word "organization'' and formally and officially choose the name "United Nations of the World": . . . UNOW -United...
Even within the limits of the job as it was conceived, U.S. bombardiers were briefed only one time out of three to drop their bombs on such critical points as compressors and conversion plants, which would have put the factories out of operation for months. Most of the time, the aiming points assigned were water mains and pipelines, which could quickly be repaired...
Zero Hour. A single B-29 will carry the Model-T bomb at Crossroads. More B-29s will fly above it, to drop instruments in parachutes. The "mother planes" will hover at a fairly safe distance, ready to shepherd their crewless "drones" into the radioactive cloud. At Zero minus 15 seconds, another ring of B-29s, each carrying at least 25 cameras, will turn and head for the target...
Today C.U. offers five productions a season, for three weeks each. From a box-office standpoint, they could easily run much longer. But if they did, Father Hartke remarks, the student-actors' grades would take some awful nosedives. Even as it is, they almost always drop. But the stagecraft holds...
...local abortionist who came up when news of Author MacDonald's being " 'that way' went the rounds of the mountains and valleys along with the news about the contagious abortion in the Helwig herd of Jerseys and the impotency of the Green bull." " 'Drop up some evening with six dollars,'" said the abortionist, " 'and I'll fix you good as new. . . . Took care of Mrs. Smith when she was six months along and got rid of three for my own wife at three months. Just a plain old-fashioned buttonhook...