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Word: dropped (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1990-1999
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...such optimism belies a drastic drop in applications...

Author: By Andrew D. Cohen, | Title: Med School Copes With Decreasing Applications | 3/8/1990 | See Source »

...caffeine from Lou's coffee wore off in time for the Crimson to drop the next two games...

Author: By Tom Kane, | Title: Exhausted M. Spikers Bounce Big Green | 3/6/1990 | See Source »

BOSTON--Republican Party Chair Ray Shamie said that if one candidate for governor wins a so-called "supermajority" of support at the party convention this weekend, the other candidates should drop out of the race and support...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Shamie Urges GOP Hopefuls To Back Supermajority Winner | 3/6/1990 | See Source »

...with sources is par for the gossip course, and Smith has her own techniques. "My effort is to turn everybody I know into a legman for me," she says. Reporters at newspapers, magazines and the three networks, she claims, often leak snippets to her. Agents of all kinds drop nuggets, as do friends, parties and openings. Public relations people are "mostly so inept that you should just forget it totally." Though, in truth, Liz has been known to run their press releases verbatim, as well as to promote shamelessly her favorite restaurants, charities and plays...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Press: Liz Smith | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

...double hook for bombs was abandoned by the mission planners, who feared, if one malfunctioned, the armed bomb might dangle in the rack like hell on a tether. You remember the day 44 years ago on a college campus when the news came of the Enola Gay's successful drop and the public dawning of the nuclear age, how you sat up most of the summer night talking and wondering...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Silver Hill, Maryland: A Flight Down Memory Lane | 3/5/1990 | See Source »

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