Word: droppings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...McVay, manager of the Viscose plant. But just when the meeting was about to take action, Baptist Minister Carlton Blankenship offered up a fiery defense of Governor Almond: "If the Governor of Virginia as well as the U.S. were to call us to war, we would drop everything to rally to the cause. Since our Governor has asked us for patience and endurance in this time of trial to preserve our schools in the way which we all desire, I am in agreement with...
...makes friends. He is shocked when, after some of these colored friends come to visit him at his office, his white secretary resigns in horror. As the education of Toby's heart proceeds, he finds himself leading a double life: his white pals and his mistress would drop him like a synthetic diamond if they knew that he was going to slum homes in the colored quarters. Gradually he comes to value his colored friends more than the white-and by that time the last of his complacency is gone...
...Adrian wrung every drop out of the part of 'Liza's father. Kilty was a model Professor Higgins, and Cavada Humphrey was properly reginal as the professor's Victorian mother...
Only the School of Public Administration declined in total enrollment. Eighty-two students will register this year, a drop of two from last year. Twenty foreign countries are represented in this number, with the largest delegation from Pakistan...
...letters. The Spanish dramatist Lope de Vega wrote five successive novels, omitting the letter a from the first, e from the second, i from the third, o from the fourth, u from the fifth. Franz Kafka was hopelessly drawn to the letter k. Kierkegaard, the father of existentialism, would drop such remarks as, "I am as reflexive as a pronoun," or, "I feel like a letter printed backward in the line." The French poet Louis Aragon spoke for many bedeviled writers in his poem entitled "Suicide...