Word: dropping
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...took an enormous toll on his physical capacities. The first skiing Pope can no longer schuss down slopes; his beloved mountain hikes have been replaced by slow strolls around his Vatican terrace. His public appearances have been reduced, though his attitude is, Don't stop until you drop...
Roughly speaking, the reporting and first-draft writing is done by the candidates, who number from about forty when a batch begins to try, to seven or eight when the most successful are elected editors. But as the poorest of them drop out or are dropped, the better ones are given more and more suggestions and assignments. If a candidate shows interest and industry, if he is accurate and reliable in writing up his news, and if he has any interest, intellectual, social, or athletic, which brings him into contact with some of the sources of College activity...
...have a flip question," Radano says. "How do you know I'm a white man? If we go by the 'one drop' rule, who's to say that I'm not just passing...
While admitting that he probably doesn't have that "one drop," Radano argues that one's race should be irrelevant for the study of music...
...Meanwhile, Judge Garland Burrell Jr., impatient with the delays in the trial, ruled today that Kaczynski would not be allowed to represent himself. The defendant, stuck with his original lawyers, was out of options. The government forced him to drop the sticking point of the earlier deal: A proviso that if evidence from his Montana cabin was thrown out on appeal, Kaczynski could void the deal and go back to trial...