Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...eyewitness, who observed the incident through the window of the doors separating the lobby from the rest of the theater, said that one of the youths was about to drop a heavy metal door stop on the head of the prostrate theater employee, if he had not been distracted by someone exiting the theater...
Hang time -- it's the key to the punting game, and both Restic and MacMurray know there's too little of it right now. "We lack a punting coach, per se," MacMurray says, explaining he works out alone, trying to improve his drop, heighten his extension and lengthen his hang time. But such an improvement takes time and concentration; and for MacMurray, that means solitude...
Studies by such groups as the World Health Organization and the World Bank have noted a sharp drop in the peak age of child malnutrition in these areas as a result of the "alarming" decrease in breastfeeding in the past two decades. Babies are now commonly suffering from the deadly combination of malnutrition and diarrhea--often caused by bacteria-infested, diluted or ill-prepared formula--as early as three to six months after birth. In light of the fact that the critical period for brain development is the first two years of life, this situation is indeed tragic...
Gail said that the friends and relatives with whom she had spent time before going back to college seemed to drop away, as their lives became more and more different. In their place came new people, many of them undergraduates. Though Katiti and Gail expressed fear that Harvard creates a mindset that in the long run destroys the diversity Harvard advertises, they envy the average House dweller's liberty...
Eckstein said that he had actually expected course enrollment to drop from last year's 920 figure. "If I'd known we were going to have 993," he said, "I would have gone out on the street and found seven more students...