Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Second Ballot. The second ballot began. This was when favorite sons would drop out and the real business of voting would begin. Taft got 50 of the 56 Illinois votes which had gone to Favorite Son Green. Dewey got 24 of the 35 New Jersey votes which had gone to Driscoll. Most of Dewey's gain was in dribs & drabs-a vote here, a vote there, demonstrating the value of the Dewey camp's attention to details...
Even the Nicaraguan peons knew that something was stirring. The tipoff: a drastic drop in planting during the current rainy season. Small farmers, sure that in the event of war troops would burn their fields, had planted just enough for their...
British and other nondollar traders cheered what amounted-for them-to a 20% drop in Argentine prices. ECA officials, glad to see European countries get any kind of a break, agreed that the decrees were "a step in the right direction." But they scoffed at the Buenos Aires story that it was part of a big deal that would shoot ECA dollars into Argentina. That still waited for: 1) lower Argentine wheat and meat prices; 2) Argentine willingness to pay at least part of the estimated $475 million now owing to U.S. firms...
...Alabama divorcee who sued Governor Kissin' Jim Folsom as the father of her two-year-old-announced that she was now "tired of the whole mess," and asked permission to drop the suit. "Your petitioner has come to realize," she explained after a few months' thought, "that she has been . . . used as a political tool...
This month U.S. churches were crowded-for weddings. But some June brides might drop their bouquets with shock to hear that the early Christian Fathers regarded marriage as the lesser of two evils...