Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...planes swooped over Jap prison stockades to drop food and supplies. U.S. trucks and cars wheeled into prison compounds to pick up bony, half-naked men. Aboard U.S. transports and hospital ships they were bathed, fed, clothed, given medical treatment. Then, like men awakened from nightmares, they talked...
...only present-day Germany but also the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Switzerland, northeastern France, Austria and part of Czechoslovakia. These same "Germans" make up the Saxon element of the inhabitants of the British Isles, and it seems to me that the English must be not a little proud of their drop of Saxon blood since they constantly refer to themselves as "Anglo-Saxons...
...Hearst papers will drop two minor-league strips, Tim Tyler's Luck and Jungle Jim, will sneak them back in when the creators get their boys into more peaceful pursuits...
...million-a-year worth of radio enterprise (soap operas, Truth or Consequences, etc.), signed Smith for two years, and plan to blow $1,600,000 a year on the show-which is a lot of Oxydol. It is a good contract for Jack Smith: if P & G decide to drop him, they lose the right to the prize radio time (held for three years by Chesterfield)-and meanwhile Jack Smith can sing on as many other radio shows as he, and his fans, can take...
Enter the Cavalry. Jane left the soldiers at her fiance's home station, after urging them to drop in on her soon. David was not at the station to meet her. At the house, she first heard his voice querulously complaining about cold bath water. Soon he was enthusiastically outlining to her his plans for British Fascism - "a great company [of veterans] bound by common experience, [with a] soldiers' guild . . . soldiers' candidate . . . soldiers' party...