Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...normally has a putting eye sharp enough to split teak in the forests of Borneo, three-putted the first hole and was unable to drop his putts the rest of the round...
...much at Harvard has really gotten going yet and you probably saw all the films you wanted to see over the summer. Of course, there's always the first-week-end-of-school-when-no-one-has-that-much-work-to-do-yet-or-the-initiative-either parties to drop in on, but you have to be a really hardcore party-goer to do that all weekend...
Most House masters yesterday attributed the drop to faculty members' workloads, which masters said do not permit faculty to take on extra-departmental responsibilities, and to an increasingly rapid turnover in House masters, who set up the House programs...
...politeness that engulfs every other emotion." "No matter how bad an evening has been," says Atlanta Psychiatrist Alfred Messer, a native of New Jersey, "Southern women never fail to say, 'Y'all come back and see us again soon' when they might want to say, 'Drop dead.' " Critic Haskell recalls having to take "sort of the Anita Loos approach" to society. "You ask the great big man what he's interested in." At its best, this politeness produces the immensely attractive surface of Southern life. At its worst, it produces an ingrained falseness...
...week after week for nine months a year. The sport defies economic logic. A late-model sports car race might feature a dozen cars worth from $12,000 to $16,000 each flying flat out to win a first prize of $700. At the smallest tracks, the purse can drop...