Word: plummetted
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...plummet his voice from coloratura soprano to Chaliapin bass. But-it is not his voice that enthralls his fans, it is his lingo. For Tin Tan is a master of pocho, and pocho, a bilingual bastardy of anglicized Mexican,† is as funny to Mexican ears as the English of a stage Englishman is to Americans. Pocho, which literally means something that has lost its color, has come to stand for the thousands of Mexicans near or across the border who have ruined their Spanish without ever quite learning English. To aficionados Tin Tan is high satire...
...downward side, the railroads continued the slide that they started late last year. They are taking in more money but lower freight rates, taxes and higher wages leave less & less. Southern Pacific rolled up $21,685,247 in last year's first quarter, saw its profits plummet to $11,445,893 in this. Smaller roads fared no better. Pere Marquette tumbled from...
...parachute burned. Smith knew his parachute was built to carry 250 pounds, knew that two men with equipment weigh nearly twice as much. But, hoisting his wounded friend onto his back, he jumped. The chute snapped open, held-but Smith lost his grip on his friend, saw him plummet to his death. When Smith floated down to earth, he was taken prisoner. Last week, for a brave try that went wrong, the Air Ministry awarded him the Distinguished Flying Medal...
Sleeper's Slip. In Memphis, a sleeping fireman woke to an alarm, jumped to the slide-pole, dropped like a plummet, broke his legs. Both his arms had gone to sleep...