Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...their hilly retreats by low-flying airplanes, whose pilots pursue the animals across the prairies until they are near exhaustion. Then trucks take up the chase. Finally, the horses are lassoed with ropes weighted with truck tires or other heavy objects. The horses drag the weights around until they drop. Then they are hobbled, hauled into the truck. Wild Horse Annie documented all this with photographs that she took from the top of her car, while her husband sat below, a .38 revolver...
This year the resentments of the well-to-do are fueled by a $60 million slump in exports (caused mostly by the drop in commodity prices) and new import duties to pay for Trujillo's $5,000,000 arms purchases abroad. But few are willing to jump from passive opposition to active rebellion by joining Trinitaria at home or one of the exile groups abroad. They fear now that revolution might lead to Castro-style measures against themselves...
...time to time (and once murdered a clerk), a waitress was arrested for peddling narcotics; the switchboard was taken over by a telephone operator who claimed to read character from voices, and who refused to put through calls from types he disliked. Still the guests came, and still they dropped into the pool. "I used to wait for them to come home and fall in," remembers Playwright Arthur Kober. "It was like waiting for a shoe to drop. I'd hear the splashes and then I'd go to sleep...
...subject to seasonal variances, the nonagricultural gain indicates a broad base of strength that is likely to increase. In addition to a steady employment increase, the Labor Department expects the rate of unemployment (which stayed steady in June because of the seasonal influx of students and June graduates) to drop to around 2,500,000 by October, between 3.5% and 4% of the work force...
Kozo Ohishi, 46, went home to Pippu (pop. 8,600) in northern Japan last week, celebrating with proud sobriety the end of a 25-year binge during which he "never touched a drop...