Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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After weeks of examining witnesses, the committee had more or less dropped the case, without having developed sufficient evidence to prove whether Hiss or Chambers was lying. But Alger Hiss did not drop the case. After Chambers repeated his charges over radio's Meet the Press program, Hiss filed a $75,000 libel suit against Chambers in Baltimore's Federal Court. This was the second ring...
...till a charitable upper-caste Hindu (standing at a careful distance) pours some water for them. Occasionally an Untouchable will gather enough money to hire an upper-caste villager to draw his water for him regularly. Caste Hindu employers sometimes wrap up the money to be paid Untouchable workers, drop the pay into their hands...
...graduates, who will be paced by Charlie Hutter he still holds pool records in the 50-yd, 100-yd, and 200-yd freestyle have just won one of those annual meets, Saturday they should drop another, for Ulen's squad looks like one of the best in a long time...
...hardest part of the job was the final editing. To get down to a 45-minute playing time, they had to drop such highlights as Gandhi urging nonresistance, Fiorello La Guardia reading the comics over New York City's station WNYC, and a musical background that was to include such popular songs of the Depression as Brother, Can You Spare a Dime? and Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf...
King Customer. What had caused the drop in retail sales? Most retailers blamed the unseasonal warm weather. But Fred Lazarus Jr., president of the Federated Department Stores, Inc., thought the trouble was something more than that. His chain had just increased its profit 27%-on a sales increase of only 13.6%-to a record of $12 million for the year ended in October. But, like others, Federated felt the November slump. Said Lazarus: "The market has become a buyers' market. The day of honest-to-goodness merchandising is back...