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Word: dropped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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Usage:

...fastest race in the world," said the resident of Passaic, N.J., who has watched all the Boston races since he stopped running here. "They start here like they're running a one-mile race and either you keep up or you drop dead. That's the way it was in '36, and it's the same thing...

Author: By Mark D. Director, | Title: A Grand, Old Runner | 4/18/1978 | See Source »

Wichita has 15 cases of fine wine, and no one can yet touch a drop...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Americana: A Case of Oenophobia | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...estimated $1.5 million to its first year of operation, rented additional office space for 60 circulation employees, installed 1,000 newspaper vending machines around town, and began printing 71,000 copies of a 24-page daily insert of mostly San Diego news (circulation and pages are expected to drop this week...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Invasion from the North | 4/17/1978 | See Source »

...England autumn, and the courtiers looked as though they'd just stepped off a wedding cake, with popsicle-orange feathers bobbing on their bewigged heads. And the decor, especially in the second act, atoned for a flock of balletic bumbles. The ingenious use of layered, semi-transparent drop scrims melted the bright grove of the hunting party into a blue dream-world, then into the cobwebby forest of enchanted sleep...

Author: By Juretta J. Heckscher, | Title: A Flawed 'Beauty' | 4/11/1978 | See Source »

...during negotiations with kidnapers. Once it became apparent-from the sole ransom demand of $8.6 million-that they were dealing with professional criminals rather than political radicals, police grew bolder than ever. Though the Empain family was willing to pay off, police set up a phony ransom drop on a highway near Paris and ambushed a team of kidnapers who tried to retrieve the funds. Three gunmen escaped, one was killed and another, Alain Caillol, was captured. A few hours later, Caillol telephoned a terse message to his friends: "It's over. They'll never...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: Empain's Ordeal | 4/10/1978 | See Source »

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