Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rapid changes being introduced have apparently discomfited some and angered others whose families were touched by the purge of radicals (experts believe 25% of all Communist Party officials were affected). If the modernization drive should falter in the 1980s because of a huge crop failure, an unexpected drop in oil production or an inability to pay for Western technology, a radical counterforce might re-emerge in China. In that case, the dissidents would only have to look back to Mao's writings for an extensive critique of Teng's policies. Mao would also remind them: "To rebel...
...gather the widest possible range of data, including temperatures, composition, density and distribution of the atmosphere. They will be passing through hostile territory. At higher altitudes the probes will be whipped by winds with velocities that may be as high as 360 km (220 miles) an hour. They will drop through clouds thought to consist of sulfuric acid droplets. But their real test will come near the planet's surface, where temperatures reach 480° C (900° F) and the atmospheric pressure is nearly 100 times that of earth's at sea level...
...mysteries of the movie business is Hollywood's predilection for filming hopelessly stagebound Broadway hits. Some plays transfer easily to the screen, but those built around theatrical gimmicks invariably drop dead. Same Time, Next Year, like last year's Equus, never stood a chance as a movie: it is a one-joke, one-set, two-character sitcom that should be allowed to retire in peace to the nation's dinner theaters...
Then there is Goldman's script, which refuses to make up in wit what it lacks in thrills Goldman chooses instead to litter his dialogue with allegedly with-it references (from Steve Martin to the Four Seasons restaurant), as if sheer name drop ping might pass for sophistication...
When co-captain Boyd missed a drop pass, sophomore right winger Tom Murray pounced on the puck near center ice and pushed it up to Johnny Cochrane, who streaked down the right boards on a two-on-one break. Using Murray as a decoy, he wound up at the right face-off circle and lasered a shot along the ice past Harrison's stick side, triggering stunned silence among RPI followers and a mass celebration on the Harvard bench...