Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...accepted observation in Texas-where observations are made at the drop of a Stetson-that all you need to stir up a devil-duster is a little bit of wind. The wind started to blow when Dallas Morning News Columnist Frank X. Tolbert allowed as how it was curious that Denison-born Dwight D. Eisenhower had given Tyler as his birthplace when he enrolled at West Point...
...human girl is developed through the dancers' fingertips-pointing at the eyes to indicate tears, at the forehead for mystification, at the ceiling to swear by all that's holy, etc. There are magic veils, palm reading and plots until the sylph's little wings drop off and, faltering as if blind, she dies. When, amid all this fabulizing, they get a chance to dance, the Danes are light on their toes-as if the stage were covered with foam rubber-and their movements are graceful rather than virtuoso. Everything they do onstage helps the drama...
...York and London financial markets last week there was a new speculative favorite: the Compagnie Universelle du Canal Maritime de Suez. After a drastic drop from $260 in the wake of Nasser's nationalization of the big ditch, the shares have finally begun edging up and last week reached $182, four points above crisis low. Said a London dealer: "Since the crisis there have been many more canal buyers in London than before. Shares used to change hands by the fifties and hundreds. Now they change hands by the thousands...
...marked drop in scholarship applications last year resulted in the smallest number of students seeking admission to the College since the war. The unofficial number of candidates for the Class of 1960 was 3,772, a decrease of 239 from the previous year...
...after the leak, when Northeast stock was already rising fast, on a tip from a broker friend. Ruppar got 500 shares at 10½, later picked up another 500 at around 12. After holding the stock for several days, he sold in the middle of a profit-taking drop, actually lost an estimated $1,600 on the deal. That left the CAB, the FBI and the Senate Investigations Subcommittee still looking for the barracuda. But the case had already served one good purpose: from now on CAB will announce its route awards as soon as it makes its decision, thus...