Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...impulse to drop the May-Johnson bill's loop over the beast's head, tie him to the corral fence and scramble for cover had been tempting. The nation was aching for an excuse to quit worrying about being blown up en masse. Both the President and the Army demanded immediate passage. So did an impressive knot of scientists-OSRD's Dr. Vannevar Bush, Harvard's President, Dr. James Bryant Conant and the Manhattan Project's Major General Leslie R. Groves...
...Nerve Center. This feeling of renewed hope in G.O.P. Washington was based on a hunch that the Truman popularity would continue to drop. The hunch might be wrong. But the hope it kindled had several results. It perked up sagging G.O.P. morale. It whipped Republican Congressmen into a determination to draft a program of their own-and soon-probably before the G.O.P. National Committee meets in Chicago on Dec. 7. It also started the first hot-stove-league talk of 1948 presidential candidates...
...Ulin drop-kicked the first and third conversions for the extra points, pulling the tally up to 20 at the half. A safety from the Dudley two-yard line in the second half finished the total...
There were few catastrophes, chiefly because the drop in gross income after V-J day was often balanced by the drop in taxes. And many a company, notably those selling consumer goods, was still coasting along on the momentum of the war boom. But if earnings reports were reasonably cheery, they were also often deceptive...
Sarah Lawrence is entering its 18th year. To celebrate its coming of age, the small, progressive college in New York's suburban Bronxville, where girls in blue jeans carry the world on their shoulders, decided to drop its two-year diploma, emerged as a full four-year college, and hired a new president...