Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...threat of force in ways contrary to the U.N. charter; to refrain from fomenting civil strife in other countries; to carry out international agreements in good faith; to promote human rights; to grant free access to U.N. agencies; to exercise restraint in the use of the U.N. veto; to drop barriers which prevent a free exchange of information; to give up a measure of national sovereignty for effective U.N. control of atomic energy. Said Austin: "If the Soviet Union is ready to perform these essentials, then [Russia's proposed] five-power pact is not needed...
...game at $2.89 a fifth. A Crimson of the early '30's reported that "Today's Yale contest is the last of the season. From now on the boys will have to do their drinking inside." The stands were behind the team down to the last drop...
Assuming the presidency of Yale in time for the end of the depression and the outbreak of the war, he saw the enrollment rise from a pre-war 5,300 to 9,000, and drop back to 8,400 this fall...
...World War II, The People's Astrologer Lyndoe was so accurate in his forecasts of coming military events that the censors persuaded the editor to drop dates from hot predictions...
...world's biggest gold buyer, the argument continued, the U.S. should raise its buying price to about $50 an ounce. Failing that, it should declare a free market in gold, i.e., drop the ban against citizens' buying, selling or owning gold, and cancel the requirement that miners sell only to the Federal Government. Producers confidently felt that freeing gold would boost the price, since it is now selling for as high as $70 an ounce in the free gold marts of India, China, France and more than a dozen other nations...