Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...lieutenant, his sergeant and I sit down together. They both drop into silence. Soon I realize that they are half asleep, hunched on the boxes that serve for chairs. A German shell bursts in the air just over the house and they tiredly dive for the floor. The lieutenant smiles but does not speak when he resumes his seat before a wall...
Chicago. In spite of the campaign, a city school official estimated that high-school enrollment, already down 18,000, would drop another 8,000 lower this fall. More than 80% of Chicago's high-school boys & girls over 16 work part-time after school. Said Dolores Sujak, 17, getting $27 a week full-time at Western Electric: "I didn't like school very much. This is essential work, and besides, there's a future...
...solution to all our troubles is at hand. Norm Brown, representing the Amalgamated Real Estate Dealers of Malden, Mass., promises an apartment or room of any type to all who will vote for him as Battalion Commander. All those who are interested will please drop by Room E-22, Chase, and pick up (1) a Brown button; (2) a marked ballot. Better hurry up; they're going fast...
...space was so small he couldn't squirm around. He couldn't see out of his little prison. He had not had a bite to eat or a drop of water...
...French forces had arrived in the nick of time to save the patriots. In Warsaw, no rescue had come to the underground forces of General Bors, which for a month had stood off the German Army. RAF flyers in Italy had made the 1,750-mile round trip to drop supplies and a few weapons (TIME, Aug. 28). So far the Russians, some ten miles away, had dropped nothing...