Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Both the MRP and the Communists were expected to drop a few seats. If the MRP lost more, as many observers foresaw, the Communists might give their big rivals a close race for Assembly leadership. The Socialists, even though they may not lose heavily in this week's election, are a dying party-suffering from too much highminded good will and not enough dynamism. "Their tragedy," said TIME Correspondent André Laguerre, "is that everyone in France-or almost-is a socialist with a small s. But on election day everyone votes leftwing Socialist (Communist) or rightwing Socialist...
Yardlings and other unfortunates whose radios cannot pick up the station have been invited to drop in at the studios in the basement of Dudley Hall for the broadcast...
...reverses and a good passing attack. Munger believes in limiting his offense to a few basic plays, uses a metronome to get the timing down pat. Fellow Ivy Leaguers moaned that Penn had outgrown the football played by Harvard, Yale, etc., and once more debated whether to drop Penn from their schedules. But Penn had looked mighty before and then collapsed (last year Army humbled her 61-0). The game with Army two weeks hence should decide whether Penn had really graduated to the "A" league...
Kirkland House unleashed a savage first-half running attack yesterday to drop Eliot from the undefeated ranks 7 to 0, at the same time maintaining its own spotless record with four wins and no losses. Meanwhile, Leverett came fast at the end to down Adams 12 to 0 and go into a tie for second place in the league standings...
...lips of a strange woman drop as an honeycomb, and her month is smoother than oil: But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword. Her feet go down to death; her steps take hold on hell. Proverbs...