Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...University subsidy that Sullivan referred to was Harvard's recent announcement that it would provide up to $2 million to aid faculty members in finding housing in Cambridge. "That was like giving a lemon drop to the speculators--it made them drool," Vellucci said...
...taken steps to reduce the sugar, salt and fat content of school breakfasts and lunches; proposed a regulation that would remove Super Donuts and other fortified pastries from school breakfast programs; successfully lobbied for a law banning junk food in school vending machines; helped to persuade Congress to drop requirements that food-stamp recipients pay some cash, thereby making the stamps available to 1.5 million more people...
UNESCO delegates drop a threat to curb the news
...delightful little bonbons, really. They appeal to the Anglophile in all of us. Like the imported BBC television shows so popular today, they prey on the transatlantic inferiority complex that leaves most Americans rolling their eyes at anyone who flashes a British accent. The Loeb production unashamedly squeezes every drop out of this tendency, even playing "God Save the Queen" before the overture...
Fukuda decided to drop out of the running after his second place primary showing, but he could have stayed in the race, which the Japanese Parliament will formally decide December 1. "After the primary, it seemed a foregone conclusion Fukuda would lose" in the parliamentary election, Edwin O. Reischauer, University Professor and former American ambassador to Japan, said yesterday...