Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Drop Kick...
DeMatteo initiated the scoring for Harvard with a 30-yard drop kick, putting the Crimson ahead by a 3-0 margin. The Rams then scored a try to make the score 4-3 URI. Harvard regained the lead in the seesaw battle, 7-4, when co-captain Peter Hilton dove over the goal line for a try after picking up the ball which had slithered from a tackled DeMatteo's hands...
...only after such an experience are Percy's characters capable of love, a principle solidified in his third novel, Love in the Ruins. This jolt is so essential to his conception of man in the modern world that he worries "Not what will happen if the Bomb should drop, but what if it should not drop...
...secure a feudal alliance with the pillars of Catholicism and--always--the family priests, eager to anchor all that money and prestige to the firm rock of the Church. It's the stuff of which grand anecdotes are made, and Corry makes the most of his material. At the drop of a shilleleagh, he can spin off a neat character sketch that will leave all who have ever seen a Barry Fitzgerald movie shaking their heads in recognition. Perhaps the most striking is his portrait of Tom Murray, the staunch champion of Catholicism who insisted that each daughter...
...result has been a kind of sexless recovery lacking passion, purpose and satisfaction. No one has got terribly excited about it, least of all the nation's investors. Last week they drove the Dow Jones Industrial Average down to 919, a 14-month low and a drop of 80 points since the start of the year; it rebounded to 927 on Friday. The market sagged despite bullish economic news. The nation's unemployment rate in March dropped to 7.3%, from February's 7.5%. The Commerce Department's index of leading indicators, a harbinger of growth, rose...