Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Russians were apparently sulking over the continuation of the Anglo-U.S. airlift, which they had thought the West would drop like a hot hand grenade as soon as the New York agreement was reached last May. They no doubt disliked Western stockpiling in Berlin as a buffer against possible future blockades. But Washington accepted with equanimity the prospect of more trouble on the Autobahnen. Said one Department of State spokesman: "We worked out a pretty good scheme of retaliation measures at the time of the lifting of the blockade. The degree of our reaction will be strictly proportionate...
Even in areas of the economy where the drop in business had seemed most striking (e.g., retail sales), the slump was deceptive. In both unit and dollar volume, the first six months of retail sales in 1949 were close to 1948's first half...
Delegations from Belgium drop in to see him quite often. Word reached Brussels last week that the King was telling callers he now felt dubious about a plebiscite on his return. It might divide his people, politically and geographically, by deepening the division between Flemings (who tend to support the King) and Walloons (who distrust his alleged pro-Flemish sympathies). Leopold, said one report, favored a solution that would allow him to return to Brussels with honor vindicated and constitution upheld, then abdicate in favor of his son Baudouin...
...depression had the opera rested on such a fat financial cushion. When Mrs. Charles Phelps Taft and Mrs. Mary Emery died, the purse strings that had long supported the opera were cut. Public support all but failed. In 1934, the wealthy patrons were looking for a way to drop their expensive hobby. The A.F.M. local agreed to take it up. Since then, Oscar F. Hild, the union's president, has run the show. One of his shrewdest ideas: the Young Friends of Summer Opera, whose teen-age members serve as money raisers and ushers, and so spend free nights...
...consider his view impractical and perverted when he tell them they must transplant young palm trees instead of cutting them down when a clearing is to be made. A Lambarene colleague reports that when a grapefruit was brought to Schweitzer as he worked late at night, he would always drop a spoonful of the juice on the floor beside him for the ants. "Look at my ants," he would say. "Just like cows around a pond...