Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...right field, Franklin Roosevelt's Packard drove up a ramp. The President dismounted, stepped a few feet to a speaker's stand. It began to pour. The President took off his grey fedora, let the Navy cape drop from his shoulders. Standing in the rain in his grey sack suit, he spoke for five minutes. Said he: Bob Wagner "deserves well of mankind...
...lorry to get away from fast baseball players, be compelled to walk on the road again, only to jump clear of a rash driver, and so on down the road between a double line of huge lorries, where men played cards sitting on petrol tins, shaved with a mere drop of water, using the small windscreen mirror to see how they were progressing, and washed clothes in about one pint of water to a whole packet of soap powder...
Next day, Pan Am said it expects to drop its New York-London fare to around $148, with a 10% reduction for round trips. This will not come until Pan Am gets its new 128-passenger planes. T.W.A., with a windfall of five Boeing Stratoliners returned by the Army, says it can begin flying seven trips weekly at once...
...fact seemed clear: the bitter and extended fighting in Italy had forced the U.S. to drop the plan which Secretary Morgenthau once implied would saddle enemy countries with at least part of the cost of invasion. Now, the U.S. may have to pay as it goes, and try to collect at some future peace table...
...drives an average 265 yards straight down the middle. But his magic touch lies with the irons. He regulates his swing in clocklike fashion, using the same amount of punch each time, getting different distance by lengthening or shortening his backswing. Once he knows the range, he can drop ball after ball dead on the pin. (He could equip a caddy with a baseball glove and pitch iron shots to him on the first bounce.) His one weakness is with the putter. He is inclined to stroke a short putt too hard, and is more likely to sink...