Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Alben Barkley talked informally about his service in the Senate with Harry Truman. Said he: "We're teammates now, and after the election we'll still be a team, in there pitching with the catcher understanding the signs of the pitcher, whether it will be a slow drop or a chin cutter...
...Celia Shanagher and Mrs. Bridget McAnulty, the same that run the Green Bay, they wouldn't tell on a duke, now, but they could drop a gentle hint, like, to some of the neighbors. So by the time the navy boys come back for their snack, the population has turned up in such multitudes it takes the Civic Guards to hold them back. Down sits the duke and his friends to a mess of tomato soup, salmon, steak, eggs, chips, fish, jelly, pears, cream, coffee and cheese the like of which Buckingham Palace hadn't seen since Paddy...
...Mike, white-haired, but still straight as a pine, chatted about the good old days: "There aren't many oldtimers like me left any more . . . You know, I used to know old Dan McGrew. He was a big hulking fellow. He'd shoot a man at the drop of a hat. I remember the night he got it. Lou ["the lady known as"] wasn't expecting to get shot but she got over it. Last I heard she was running a rooming house up in Prince Rupert...
Three days later, Llosa finished the revolution as methodically as he had begun it. While the rest of the army closed in on his rebellious garrison-but before a drop of blood was shed-he and seven of his officers beat it across the border to Bolivia. Before going, he sent the change back to the bank-95,000 of the 100,000 soles he had borrowed-along with his personal note for the 5,000 soles which the revolution had cost...
...phantom freight" costs on some short-haul sales. Thus they got to identical prices at any given destination. Last April, the Supreme Court upheld FTC's charge that such identical prices added up to trustlike collusion. The court ordered the defendants in the case, the cement industry, to drop the basing-point system. The order went into effect last week...