Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...worry about the 8,414 population drop in Missouri. They'll all start back after November...
When a queen is ready to mate, she picks a sunny day and takes off from the hive in a fast, rising flight. All the drones in the neighborhood drop whatever they are doing and follow. The union is consummated high in the air, often miles from the hive. The lucky drone (who is killed by the experience) may come from any bee colony within a large area...
...Kamerad!' and surrendered. Three of them came at me with raised rifles. . . . When they were a rifle's length away from me, I asked one to search my breastpocket. He took out my identification and the special photographer pass signed by Eisenhower himself. . . . I let my hands drop, took their picture and promised it would appear in LIFE magazine...
...annoys the gallery with his stony-faced skill and mechanical shots. He won the gallery's fancy by unexpectedly copping the first two sets from Champion Jake Kramer, whose play was incredibly sloppy. Then King Jake got down to business, and with a fine series of service aces, drop-shots and volleys managed to keep his crown, so that he can profitably quit it (he is about to turn pro). The score: 4-6, 2-6, 6-1, 6-0, 6-3. When Kramer took a bow-unsmiling, grey-faced and relieved-he got a thin ripple of applause...
...year ago it was $4.99). Wholesale prices, which had been dragged up by the skyrocketing food prices, were within 7% of the alltime high reached in 1920-and the rise in recent weeks has been far sharper than it was after World War I. Would there be the same drop s? Nobody knew for sure, but there was another flurry of nervous talk of recession and buyers' strikes...