Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stockholmers often inadvertently asked their King for two on the aisle.) He affably hands callers lighted matches for their cigarettes; but once when a Swedish politician, now dead, stuck a cigar in his mouth, expecting the King to light it for. him, Gustaf just let the match drop on the floor...
Deploring the "cold war" at an Anglo-American Press Association lunch, M. Auriol called it la guerre perlee. Since the '20s, Frenchmen have referred to a slowdown strike as une greve perlee (literally, a drop-by-drop strike). Thus, la guerre perlee means the "drop-by-drop war." Connoisseurs predicted that the French press would snap...
...smartest thing that Philip Joseph Christopher Aloysius Regan ever did was to drop his nightstick and pick up a shillelagh. Shillelagh on his shoulder, an Irish grin on his handsome face, and a fine, free-swinging Irish ballad on his tongue, Phil Regan has been packing them in at the nightclubs, and attracting the kind of admirers who can help a man when he wants a little help. One night last week, he had to do two shows in two different Chicago hotels, and to get between them had to race his long, grey convertible back & forth through Chicago...
Having squeezed every possible drop of Harvard "communism" into the month of its presses, the Chicago Tribume sketched the College's history on Monday and then departed for the pristine pastures of New Haven...
...World Bank and other sources, U.S. exports in 1948 might run only as high as $12 billion. But they would still be $3 billion under 1947, and the more ERP was shaved by Congress-and the more delay there was in passing it-the greater would be the drop...