Word: dropped
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Woods has no regret at having chosen exile. "Even if I had been released," he reflected, "I would always have felt that they had just lifted the blade an inch or two before they let it drop again...
Last week, though, Carter decided that, yes, he could drop Burns and life would go on pretty much as usual. In a move that surprised official Washington and caught Burns off guard while he was on vacation in Florida, the President picked as Burns' successor a man whose name had never come up in public speculation: G. (for George) William Miller, 52, chairman and chief executive of Textron Inc., one of the nation's first and most successful corporate conglomerates...
...collected samples from four novels, a long Gaelic tale, stories, essays, teleplays and reams of humorous journalism. Jumbled together in this manner, the pieces gradually reveal a single mind behind the pseudonyms, one that was drunk with words and more than ready to defend fair language at the drop of a solecism...
...George Hughes, who scored Harvard's only power play goal of the day with only 18 seconds left in the period. Only four seconds into Brown defenseman Mike Mastrullo's penalty, brother Jack took a drop pass from Phil Evans and let loose a fastball that George directed into the upper corner. Ask no more, it was Harvard 6, Brown...
...wonder of Menachem Begin's overnight drop-in on the White House is still being pondered for lasting significance. Such visits were never before conceived in less than months. Suddenly, Israel's Premier was at the door. Jimmy's arms were open. When the first meeting was over, Carter plunked down at his desk and rang up Anwar Sadat over in Cairo just as if he were on the phone to Plains. Carter filled in the Egyptian President on what he and Begin had discussed. Begin went off to visit his old friend Kissinger, then dropped in on the ailing...