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One man dropped to his knee for better aim.
He dropped him into the street a couple of feet away from Geely's recumbent figure and stared down at both of them for a moment before kicking the big man lightly in the side.
In 1934, the McDaniel family moved to the largely black South Side area of Chicago, where the young man dropped the name Otha and became known as Ellas McDaniel, until his musical ambitions demanded that he take on a more catchy identity.
However the Italian troops were not dropped as a unit, but as a series of small ( 8 – 10 man ) groups.
* Scramm-A likable young man, depicted as a simple soul who dropped out of school and married early, Scramm is the " Vegas favorite ", with 9 to 1 odds.
When Bates dropped out through illness in 1976 after two series, the role of the third man of the trio was filled in various years up to the 30th series by the quirky war veteran, Foggy Dewhirst ( Brian Wilde ), the eccentric inventor, Seymour Uttherthwaite ( Michael Aldridge ), and former police officer Truly Truelove ( Frank Thornton ).
Another man ( Malcolm Atterbury ) is dropped off at the bus stop, but he turns out to be unconnected to Thornhill ; the man leaves on a bus after observing that a nearby biplane is " dusting crops where there ain't no crops.
Towards the end, the man walks into the house and sees a broken mirror being dropped onto wet ground.
Ryo is a young man of 18 years of age who has recently dropped out of Yokosuka High School to embark on a journey to avenge his father's murder.
Following scores of 18 and 1, the selectors dropped Bradman to twelfth man for the Second Test.
The college refused to punish the man and Ross dropped out of university.
Chávez then nailed Taylor with a tremendous right hand that dropped the younger man.
In 2005 he was charged with attacking a man in a pub in Dore, Sheffield, however the charge was dropped for insufficient evidence.
He left the Catholic faith as a young man, and also dropped the " Ambrose " from his name.
A Grand Jury cleared three of the associates, two associates paid small fines, and charges against the sixth man were dropped.
As a young man Finney was a third-degree Master Mason, but after his conversion he dropped the group as antithetical to Christianity.
On 19 November 1940, a man was killed by a Luftwaffe bomb which was dropped in Bloomfield Road and destroyed several buildings including The Star public house ; this was rebuilt after the war but demolished in 1996.
This time a determined Armstrong dropped Mayo and Ullrich and powered off like a man possessed after the lone Chavanel.
When Caroline was being prosecuted for divorce Erskine spoke against the Bill of Pains and Penalties and, when the government dropped the bill, expressed his approval: " My Lords, I am an old man, and my life, whether it has been for good or evil, has been passed under the sacred rule of Law.
The album did not sell as well as the label had hoped ; merely four months after the release of Sneaks, Spoon's Elektra A & R man Ron Laffitte quit his job and that week the band was dropped from the label.
In the Pilot it was suggested, by an overly-long hug, that his affair was with a young man but this homosexual thread was dropped and the student confirmed to be female in later episodes.
" Wully " Robertson is said to have broken the news to him with the words " ' Orace, yer for ' ome " ( Robertson was a former enlisted man who dropped his aitches ), although by another account he may have said " ' Orace, yer thrown " ( a cavalry metaphor ).
It is said that in the late Southern Song Dynasty, a man named Cheung Chun () dropped a pail full of ancestral heirlooms into the bay as he sailed back to the area with the navy.

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Then he took off his wet boots and dropped down into the water to talk with the beasts, needing their comfort more than they needed his.
Now, the next morning, they were anchored at The Elbow and the boat was riding directly over the underwater ledge where the green water turned to deepest blue and the cliff dropped straight down 600 fathoms, with the weighted line beside it ; ;
In accordance with legislation passed at the last session of Congress, each Representative is authorized to deliver to the Post Office in bulk newsletters, speeches and other literature to be dropped in every letter box in his district.
The patrol snaked around in back of the cave, approached it from above and dropped in suddenly with wild howls.
When he was bent over behind the wheel of the station wagon, feeling in his trouser cuffs for the ignition key which he had dropped a moment before, she came out of the house with an enormous Rumanian shawl over her head, which she had bought in that country during one of their trips abroad, and handed him a clean handkerchief through the window.
Vernon was serviceable on the botanical field trips, but he could arrange no schedule with the cooks, and he was glad when the trips dropped off, and the botanists began to motor out by themselves.
It was `` window '' -- the tinsel paper dropped by bombers to jam radar sets, to fill the scope with hundreds of blips that would seem to be approaching bombers.
He dropped it and carefully ground it to nothing with the sole of his heavy shoe.
Glendora dropped a chicken and a flurry of feathers, and went with her through the drizzle, to the storehouse.
He dropped his earlier and delightful hamming, which is about the only way to handle the old war horse called `` Charley's Aunt '', and let himself go with as appealing an `` Amy '' as anybody could ask.
Deegan dropped, got up, turned and, holding the bat with both hands up against his chest, began to walk slowly out to the mound.
They ignored the ladder down to the planet surface and, with only a glance at the seismological gauge to judge surface resistance, dropped to the ground.
That ionic suffix is dropped and replaced with a new suffix ( and sometimes prefix ), according to the table below.
In British English, according to Hart's Rules, the general rule is that abbreviations ( in the narrow sense that includes only words with the ending, and not the middle, dropped ) terminate with a full stop ( period ), whereas contractions ( in the sense of words missing a middle part ) do not.
As 10-BASE-T became the de-facto cabling system for Ethernet, second-generation Power Macintosh machines added a 10-BASE-T port in addition to the AAUI, and eventually dropped AAUI on Macs with the New World ROM.
After Douglas dropped out of this program, Canadair continued on with it until the termination of the Arrow.
The group said that Settle was influenced by the episode titled " Ball Breakers ," in which Beavis and Butt-Head loaded a bowling ball with explosives and dropped it from a rooftop.
On their 1950 tour of New Zealand and Australia they also adopted the nickname British Lions, first used by British and South African journalists on the 1924 South African tour, after the lion emblem on their ties, the emblem on their jerseys having been dropped in favour of the four-quartered badge with the symbols of the four represented unions.
Steinbachek and Bronski toured extensively with the new material and got great reviews, however the project was abandoned as the group were dropped by London Records.
The album Rainbow Nation was released the following year with Hellyer returning as lead vocalist, as Foster had dropped out of the project.
The afternoon edition was soon dropped and the unwieldy name shortened to Boston Herald American, with the Sunday edition called the Sunday Herald Advertiser.
Lancaster was accepted into New York University with an athletic scholarship but subsequently dropped out.
Though the anticipated benefits to traffic flow were not as large as hoped, pedestrian injuries dropped dramatically and foot traffic increased in the designated areas ; the project was popular with both residents and businesses.

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