Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Then, about the end of April, he would be going home for good. There, on his farm at Garrowby on the rolling Yorkshire fields, he could talk crops, ride to hounds, drink the homemade beer from nearby Hickleton Hall. He might even drop in from time to time at the House of Lords, "where, you know, one has always the right to make a boring speech...
Army and Navy reluctance were blamed in part for the drop in veteran's registration from the 1500 figure predicted last week to the actual total of 1100, which, together with the handful of incoming school students, made up a 1171 total for Friday, and Saturday morning, when Memorial Hall was kept open for late comers...
...navies obsolete? Can a single atomic bomb attack destroy a billion-dollar surface fleet? Chronically optimistic airmen (who will drop the bombs) think so. Brassbound Navymen hold that atomic explosives are just another weapon: they may modify but they will not wipe out their seagoing fortresses and flying fields. This week, top Army & Navy ordnance men and atomic bombers were down to the i-dotting stage on plans to settle the question...
...years. And Cuba cannot be blamed for wanting that. She knows that if she does not cash in on a long-term deal now, when there is a world sugar shortage, she will lose out. Before many years the shortage may turn into a glut and sugar may drop to 1.8? a pound, as it did after World...
Although Nimitz drew no attention to this fact, it was no coincidence that the heavy-armor men had gone over the side. As one of the young Turks put it: "They couldn't kick 'em too hard as they let 'em drop. That hurts enough...