Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...once a week. Every day the newspapers stacked up outside their door, and for the first three weeks they lived in Winthrop House, to these were added yesterday's Times, Globe, etc., because their entry mates thought the box they put outside their door for the delivery boys to drop the papers into was some sort of newsprint recycling collection operation. This ended when Bell, after working his way manfully through what he termed "that mad dog fascist, William Safire's column" for the second day in a row by mistake, rigged a microphone he had stolen the previous spring...
...bank. Lance's entrepreneurial acumen helped to almost double the bank's assets. However, the prospect of his large block of stock going on sale, plus his own departure and the bank's falling profits, have caused the stock's market value to drop to $14 a share. If at year's end Lance is forced to sell his stock at its present price, he will lose about $614,000 on the 164,228 shares and more than $60,000 on the other 26,639 shares that he bought last September at $16.87 a share...
...President for some relief" -meaning a waiver of his pledge to sell the stock. Lance's trustee, Thomas Mitchell, says flatly: "I am not going to dispose of that stock at current market value come Dec. 31 or any other time. I'm not going to drop Bert a million dollars for going to Washington. He'll have to get another trustee to do that...
Final pre-election polls showed that Peres and his party were being hurt by a widespread feeling that Labor is too susceptible to U.S. pressure. The polls showed that Likud may win 39 seats in the new parliament (the same as in the old one); Labor, however, may drop from 51 seats to 41, while Yadin's new party could get twelve to 14 seats. If these projections hold, Peres almost certainly will have to form a unity government of all parties, or at least a coalition with the Likud, whose blunt campaign slogan is to give...
...there's little time for serenity while you're actually rowing. Each individual must have the technique down: drop the oar quick, slide, release, feather, square up the oar and do it again. And again. And again. The rest of the team can't cover up for any one rower...