Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Detroit because of the city's crime rate, one of the highest in the nation. Now much has changed. The crime rate fell more sharply in Detroit during 1977 than it did in any other major U.S. city, and continued to decrease in 1978. One reason for the drop seems to be Young's assigning many police to foot patrols...
WHEN IT COMES down to it, the Republicans will drop off one-by-one splintering the field, throwing away public tax moneys from the presidential campaign chests to tell us how much money they want to save us in taxes, leaving the older war-horses (no more elephant jokes, please) to slowly tire each other to a standstill. Carter will use the full powers of the Presidency to fight off Brown and Kennedy and possibly a host of Governors who made 1979 inaugural speeches sounding suspiciously like 1981 inaugural speeches...
...could live with until he leaned over to peer down into the tank to see if it was full. All I could see was that huge, red ash, growing longer by the moment, poised directly above the diesel, ready to fall. Just when I was sure the ash would drop into the tank, he stepped back and tossed the cigarette to the ground. He probably never knew why I was so shaken that afternoon. I could not, of course, have pointed the danger out to him. If I had, he would have shaken his head furiously to deny the charge...
Endocrine Function. Levels of testosterone, the male sex hormone, have been reported to drop with long-term pot intake. While the levels remained within normal range, the drop might reduce potency and fertility...
...beautiful technocrat, and the disciples of Literary Critic F.R. Leavis now seem like an intellectual border dispute. In retrospect it was not much of a contest. The powers of technology and social engineering either bypassed or rolled over their academic challengers. Today many defenders of the humanities even drop terms like the uncertainty principle and entropy as loose literary metaphors...