Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...farmer who had come to the village to sell his produce. One of his favorite jokes on meeting a person is to say, "What a lovely neck." I will never forget the shudder that went over me when he told me: "Ah, you are a large man, you would drop nicely." He told me one time that he was taught the trade by his father, who hanged himself when he became too old to enjoy life, and that he [Pierrepoint] would some day do the same himself...
...West Coast jitters did not infect the U.S. Public Health Service, which has seen cases drop from 48,907 in 1930, to 346 in 1945. Said Assistant Surgeon General R. C. Williams: "Smallpox is now practically a self-limiting disease. When ever you get a scare, everyone within 100 miles gets vaccinated...
...Drop everything, drop Dada, drop your wife, your mistress. Drop your hopes and your fears. Sow your children in a corner of the woods. Drop your prey for the shadow...
...river of sea water sucked out of the Mediterranean. Raised 140 feet by pumps near Haifa, it will pass through the low divide in a tunnel or a deep open cut. When it reaches the Jordan rift, it will plunge 900 feet to a power plant, then will drop 300 feet to another. The briny river's flow will be limited to about 1,000 cubic feet per second, to match evaporation from the Dead Sea. But its drop will be so great that it will generate 560,000,000 kilowatt hours per year. (TVA total: 10 billion...
...tariffs, hoped that improvements in production would permit synthetics to compete in a free market. As yet, private industry has shown no eagerness to ride on Jumbo. It fears that improvements may not come fast enough, that the price of natural rubber, now 22½? a lb., will again drop below synthetic, now 18½?. If private industry won't do the job, the committee implied that Government must...