Word: dropped
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Painful Crawl. The idea behind the battle was simple enough: drop 35,000 British and American paratroopers in Holland, behind the German lines in the fall of 1944, and ask them to seize and hold six bridges leading to Germany proper until ground forces could get to them, a distance of 64 miles. Together the forces could then smash into the Ruhr, wipe out what was left of the enemy's war production, and everybody would be home for Christmas...
Stable Introverts. One of Stanley's main disappointments is that for still disputed reasons, few girls test well on math (TIME, March 14). Those who do qualify for the special tutorials tend to drop out, and their feeling for the boys in the program is "almost one of revulsion," he says, because the girls view their male counterparts as socially immature. So far, he maintains, the boys seem to have few emotional problems. "Scientists are stable introverts," says Stanley. "They are not highly impulsive and tend to act rationally." Furthermore, he adds, it has been "demonstrated empirically" that mathematically...
...powerful magnetic field. The magnetic bottle is the only known practical container in which fusion can be sustained for any significant amount of time. If a plasma were to come in contact with the walls of a reactor, it would pick up impurities, lose energy and suffer a temperature drop that would immediately halt any fusion reaction...
...encounter starts benignly as Alice reads a newspaper to her six-legged acquaintance. But the double-entendres soon begin. Whenever Alice encounters a creature, the reader can hear a pun drop. The wasp, for example, mistakes Alice for a bee because she has a comb. Typically, wordploy is incessant, and terror lurks just beneath the surface. At one point the wasp takes off his wig and stretches out one claw toward Alice "as if he wished to do the same for her." "The cutting off of hair," writes Gardner, "like decapitation and teeth extraction, is a familiar Freudian symbol...
...touch football championship, and Winthrop is locked in a scoreless tie with Lowell. In the final play of the half, Lowell is deep in its own territory with the length of the field to go for a touchdown. Coach Rich Brody instructs Winthrop defenseman Bob Phoopher to drop back and allow his man any reception as long as it's not a touchdown. Phoopher remembers these words, and starts the play forty yards off the line of scrimmage. He remembers as the pass goes up and he's still ten yards closer than his man to the defending goal line...