Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...good news has caused the Ford Administration to revise its forecasts for the year slightly upward. It now expects real G.N.P. to rise 6.5% during all of 1976 and unemployment to drop below 7% by year's end. Earlier, official forecasts had anticipated a 6.2% G.N.P. increase and a year-end unemployment rate of 7% to 7.5% (the jobless rate had already dropped to 7.5% last month). Though the Administration does not intend to give its new predictions an official stamp, it is making no secret of its delight. Says Secretary of the Treasury William Simon: "This economy...
...match was much closer than the score indicates. After six singles matches, the teams were knotted at three apiece--and during the early part of the doubles matches it looked like the 'Cliffe net-women were about to drop only their second match this season...
Gaposhkin will talk on any subject, the bigger the better. He expands on universal peace and love, on a letter he wrote to President Nixon: "I said we should take all the biggest bombs, and drop them in the biggest ocean." Before technological progress gave birth to Space War, stargazing seems to have had a pacific influence...
...talk" or a "meeting" because you can just tell, as I could see later, that he's the type of person who would chat--with a sort of clipped voice and neat and understated way of dressing. So up to Chapman's office, and he says that I should drop the English accent I was using to get the feeling of the piece across. He says that one of the judges pointed out that Orwell--who's dead now--wouldn't have approved of it so I should stop. I called the guy on the phone, he was English himself...
...then Holy Cross came to bat and quickly scored four runs before Crimson starter Jamie Werly felt the first drop of sweat on his brow...