Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Perhaps Marshal Stalin had decided that the most stubborn fact of all was his allies' inability to decide what to do in Europe. Perhaps he thought that if he simply waited while his armies drove on, all Europe, including Germany, might eventually drop into his lap because there was nowhere else for it to drop. But his allies, too, were driven by a historic force, for they knew that if they failed to persuade Joseph Stalin to a united peace, even their united military victory would be a defeat...
Then he sent two Exchange officials to SEC headquarters to open negotiations, while Wall Street gloomily pondered a $4,000 drop in the price of a Stock Exchange seat. Said brokers: the floor traders are selling...
...also suspend prosecution under the Sherman Antitrust Act until June 1, 1947 and the Clayton Act until Jan. 1, 1948. Thus, insurance men would have ample time to change rate practices which, Attorney General Francis Biddle contends, violate these laws. If the bill becomes law, Biddle is expected to drop the criminal antitrust charges against 27 insurance bigwigs which touched off the battle...
Filmed in London, this screen version of Louis Golding's novel (TIME, July 24, 1939) is in some respects as hammily insistent on wringing the last drop of emotion out of the audience as East Lynne or The Old Curiosity Shop. But since history has made its horrors real, and the story is intelligently produced and extremely well played, it is one of the most affecting of anti-Fascist screen melodramas. Stage Veteran Felix Aylmer turns in such a mellow performance as the fragile, intrepid old man that it is easy to forgive him for visibly licking his chops...
...terrible in the sun. It is only slightly more than 100 yards they have to go in the open, and through our telescopes we can see them darting across in ones and twos, leaping into trenches. Everybody in the OP is yelling as they pour in. Some of them drop, spring up again, dash from shattered stump to shattered stump. Then nobody can be seen and Jap mortars blanket the entire position from behind the ridge...