Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Stephen St. Laurent, Quebec's top-ranking politician in the Dominion Parliament. While some 800 party big& littlewigs whooped it up from the floor. Prime Minister King, as a gesture to Quebec, spoke ten minutes in French before switching to English. He pleaded with Minister St. Laurent to drop his intentions to retire. (The Minister would probably agree.) Then, after some pats on the back for past Liberal triumphs, the P.M. abruptly sat down...
...thermometer of U.S. industrial production dropped rapidly last week in the big freeze of the coal strike. Barron's weekly business index skidded from 182.8 (1936-39 average: 100) to 175.3. Although it reflected only the first four days of the strike, the drop was almost two points...
...rest in newspaper archives. Hockey and basketball, while sports of sufficient interest to please even the most greedy promoters, do not contain sufficient human interest to fill all the columns of the numerous pages Boston papers apparently feel must be devoted to sports. As a result, every last drop of blood must be squeezed out of the personalities in whom there is greater interest, and every rumor, gag, and warmed-over story told in bars and clubs finds its way into print...
Scattered individual protests have done little to cool the ardor of the Administrative Board for enforcing the Faculty Policy of compulsory war service credits. Dean Hanford and his assistants have bent backwards enough to recognize the advisability of granting requests to drop credits for basic or boot training; but on top of that minor concession they have started to apply the pressure of officialdom to those men who have not yet submitted their form 100's or equivalent Navy chits on service "education...
...figure out. At one hopeful point she does seem to sense her danger, and decides to give the whole thing up, but she stops to pack a bag, giving Alan just enough time to frustrate the attempt. This sort of thing goes on till Alan is about to drop a tremendous boulder on her head. At this point, it is fairly clear she understands that it's true what she's been hearing and thinking about Alan, but it's too late. However, a nearby horse comes to her rescue and tramples Alan to death, leaving the way clear...