Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...later bouts Tillman suffered as he began to let his arm drop exposing it to touches on short Penn lunges. Epeeman Rob Kaplan suffered in the same way, as the experienced Penn epeemen, who have lost only three bouts together in the Ivies this season, took advantage whenever they spied an unprotected forearm...
...statements. The SEC investigation may take up to six months, and while Miller himself may be cleared of any wrong-doing in his nine years as Textron chairman, the lingering doubts about his firm preclude the possibility of confirmation until the details are clear. The Carter administration should therefore drop Miller as its nominee. Clearly, there are other qualified persons to head the Fed, and six months is too long to wait in the face of mounting economic strain...
...Rhodesians have developed an aggressive tactical approach to bush warfare. Infantry soldiers in black kit and camouflage are simply dropped off on a main road to walk into the jungle. There they may remain for two or three weeks without relief or resupply, living off the land or out of their rations (including rice and a thick African cornmeal paste called sadza). Whether tracking guerrillas by day or setting up ambush positions at night, the "troopies" communicate by hand signals as they search out foot and boot prints, bowed grass, broken camps or other varieties of "terr spoor," army slang...
...States by Kim Roosevelt. She had been trying for some time to produce a son and heir for the shah, and had failed to do so... The gynecologist went into a complicated explanation of the fertility cycle, the waywardness of ovaries, and why it was difficult to make eggs drop at the right moment. She must just keep on trying and keep her husband 'interested...
Roberta Campbell, assistant dean for residents, said William J. McGill, president of Columbia University, attributed the administration's decision to drop the proposal aimed at alleviating an expected housing shortage to student protest...