Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Before U.N., at many an inter-American conference and in dozens of crises, the quick-witted Brazilian had engineered the compromises that held the hemisphere together. He always knew how to break an impasse with a joke and he could drop a tear at the twist of a metaphor...
Small-time "saloon vaudeville" was having trouble, too. A bartender explained: "Quite a few clubs around, they used to have a couple acts in on Saturday night. Now they get a television set. It's cheaper, and they get all the business they can handle, so they drop the acts. It'll ruin that part of show business...
...When the chorus mumbled, he said sharply, in Italianized English that was hard to understand: "Let me hear the words. There is not a word that has no meaning." For an erring violinist, he indulged his own brand of humor: "If you play that wrong Saturday night, I will drop dead. Then they will put you in jail for murdering me." Muttered one perspiring observer: "They will all drop dead before the Old Man does...
...found is the backer of any school from Dropsie, with a total enrollment of 27, to California, with over 20,000 students-who does not consider his own favorite, on of the top ten institutions in America. and who will not fight at the drop of an unfluting adjective...
...Broadway-Crenshaw get customers. His plan included a 10½-acre parking lot and an underground tunnel that keeps delivery trucks out of the way of customers' cars. A Los Angeles housewife who drives out to buy at Woolworth's or Owl is just as likely to drop into the Broadway store before she starts home...