Word: drops
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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They did not enjoy it long. The Narrows bridge heaved like a hammock. Sometimes a car approaching would seem to drop clear out of sight with an undulation of the roadway. Yet the bridge was strong. Heavy winds failed to shake it; but when lighter, intermittent breezes swept in from the open Sound, it was agitated by a peculiar weaving, sinuous motion that its builder said looked like the movement of a snake under a rug. Some people got seasick at once when the bridge began to sway; some enjoyed the weird sensation, high above the water, with the wind...
Weekends he and Mrs. Holcomb (daughter of the late Rear Admiral Richardson Clover) drop down the Potomac in their 50-foot yacht Slow Boat, are sometimes called back for official business by a message carried down river by Marine Corps plane. On office days Tommy Holcomb goes home at 4:30 to the Commandant's quarters at Eighth and G Streets Southeast, alongside the Marine Barracks, where Commandants have lived in unbroken succession since the house was built in 1805. Quaint, spacious, fitted with authentic reproductions of its original furnishings, the house is also the centerpiece...
...rouse them to warfare against their former ally would be suicidal. Attempted cession of the fleet to Germany would as likely as not result in its scuttling by its own officers. German occupation of the rest of France would mean that French colonies, deprived of a homeland, would drop like plums into British hands; France's one powerful trump card is negative-when German conditions press too hard, she can always threaten to throw up the sponge...
Their idea: the U. S. ought to drop its farm tariffs, import as much grain and meatstuffs as Argentina has to sell, come what may in Kansas, Iowa and Texas...
...Pinedo brought to bear a kind of pressure he has used before : he cut off dollar permits to importers of U. S. manufactures. Immediately three U. S. auto-assembly plants came back with an announcement that without sub-assemblies irom the U. S. they would have to shut down, drop 2.500 Argentine workmen from their payrolls...