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Word: droppings (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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This is not like Viet Nam. Just let one American shed one drop of blood and I will be the first one to invade Iran with rifle in hand...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Dec. 17, 1979 | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

...price is $40, but new parents may feel it is well worth it. For Rock-A-Bye-Bear is a Teddy bear that makes cranky infants drop right off to sleep. How? It is implanted with a device that plays the soothing sounds babies hear while still in the womb: the pulsing thump and whoosh made by blood coursing through their mothers' pelvic arteries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Medicine: The Womb Tune | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

Dachau: 1936. The sun is hellish. Two men in prison garb stand in front of an electrified fence. Max (Richard Gere) and Horst (David Dukes) must carry heavy rocks from one side of the prison yard to the other, drop them in a pile and then carry them back. This task of inspired idiocy is designed not only to break their bodies but to crush their minds and spirits. Their crime: being homosexuals...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Theater: Walpurgisnacht | 12/17/1979 | See Source »

When she told him she wanted to drop the course, he asked her how she would explain a withdrawal notation on her transcript to graduate school interviewers. She replied she would tell them exactly what happened; the senior tutor looked skeptical and challenged, "Don't you think you are standing on shaky ground...

Author: By Susan C. Faludi, | Title: Sexual Harassment: New Policy But Old Problems | 12/13/1979 | See Source »

Number four man Joe Somers followed Stubbs and clinched the Harvard team victory with a four-game win over first classman (senior) Will Harrison. "I mixed my drop shots well and took advantage of Harrison's weak front court play," Somers said...

Author: By Tom Green, | Title: Crimson Racquetmen Down Army, 6-3; Bell, Somers Lead Harvard Attack | 12/10/1979 | See Source »

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