Curt reached out and dropped Jess's pistol back into the holster.

His air speed dropped until he thought he would spin out.

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.

Though the number of people flowing in and out of our metropolitan areas each day has increased tremendously since World War 2,, total annual rail commutation dropped 124 million for 1947 to 1957.

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.

Finding peaceful coexistence temporarily unsuitable because of domestic politics, Moscow resumed scowling and `` Smilin' Mike '' dropped quietly out of the press except for an occasional story reporting that he had been stoned somewhere in the Middle West.

I'll never forget one time I struck out three times, dropped a fly ball, and we lost the game.

While Crosby distracted the Beardens, stewardesses Carnegey and Toni Besset dropped out of a rear door.

Deegan dropped, got up, turned and, holding the bat with both hands up against his chest, began to walk slowly out to the mound.

He stole from his cabin late that night and crept out into a gusty North Pacific wind and dropped the biwa into the water.

The next morning, while Dolores was out of the room, he went to her bureau drawer, took out a pair of nylon lace pants, and tenderly dropped them next to his shorts.

For ships, a kedge may be dropped while a ship is underway, or carried out in a suitable direction by a tender or ship's boat to enable the ship to be winched off if aground or swung into a particular heading, or even to be held steady against a tidal or other stream.

It is claimed that he was killed by a tortoise that fell out of the sky when dropped by an eagle ; however, this story is very likely apocryphal.

There is no clear end to the ironclad period, but towards the end of the 1890s the term ironclad dropped out of use.

However, their time in league football was even less successful and considerably briefer than that of Accrington Stanley: they dropped out of the league in 1893 and folded shortly afterwards due to financial problems.

Brooks attended Carnegie Mellon in Pittsburgh, but dropped out after one year to focus on his comedy career.

After Douglas dropped out of this program, Canadair continued on with it until the termination of the Arrow.

In the episode " Steamroller " it is said that Todd had dropped out of school two years before.

In the first two cases above, " on an error " includes situations where the batter makes a clean hit ( or walks, is hit by pitch, reaches base on a fielder's choice in which no out is made, or reaches base on a wild pitch on a called or swinging third strike ), but should have been out earlier in his at bat on a foul fly ball which was dropped by a fielder for an error.

The album Rainbow Nation was released the following year with Hellyer returning as lead vocalist, as Foster had dropped out of the project.

Lancaster was accepted into New York University with an athletic scholarship but subsequently dropped out.

Dear Pal, Tony: No, Ragtime Billy Tucker hasn't dropped completely out of existence, but is still in the ' Big Apple ', Los Angeles.

Once ( this was on the third day of school ) she kneeled down to pick up some books where they'd dropped on the floor and Jack looked up her dress -- at the bare expanse of incredibly white leg.

Following high school, he was majoring in communications and rhetorical studies at Syracuse University, before he dropped out of school.

In the wake of John Byrne's reboot of Superman continuity in The Man of Steel, many traditional aspects of Clark Kent were dropped in favor of giving him a more aggressive and extroverted personality ( although not as strong as Lois ), including such aspects as making Clark a top football player in high school, along with being a successful author and Pulitzer Prize-winning writer.

Michael and JJ had gotten married, and Mike had dropped out of business school to start work in an advertising agency in New York City.

Misskelley and Echols had dropped out of high school ; however, Baldwin earned high grades and demonstrated a talent for drawing and sketching, and was encouraged by one of his teachers to study graphic design in college.

He dropped out of high school to begin his career in that field.

Eventually, though, he decided to pursue his career as a dance teacher and full-time entertainer, so Kelly dropped out of law school after two months.

Gygax dropped out of high school in his junior year and worked at odd jobs for a while, but he moved back to Chicago at age 19 to attend night classes in junior college.

Brown managed to stay in school until he dropped out in the seventh grade.

Spader later transferred to Phillips Academy, but dropped out of school in the eleventh grade to pursue acting at the Michael Chekhov School in New York City.

He dropped out of school at age 14 to become a copy boy for the New York Sun, with the ultimate aspiration to become a journalist.

Returning his attention to education, Mao enrolled and dropped out of a series of schools in quick succession ; a police academy, a soap-production school, a law school and an economics school, the latter being the only course which his father approved of.

" In 1971 she attached herself to the radical ex-convict group United Prisoners Union and dropped out of school.

He attended Narbonne High School in Harbor City for his freshman year before dropping out of school at age 15 ( Quentin Tarantino has provided contradictory information about this-elsewhere, he claimed he was 16 when he dropped out ), to attend an acting class full time at the James Best Theater Company in Toluca Lake.

Parks went on to a laboratory school set up by the Alabama State Teachers College for Negroes for secondary education, but dropped out in order to care for her grandmother and later her mother, after they became ill.

When offered a chance to run for New York Assemblyman in 1881, he dropped out of law school to pursue his new goal of entering public life.

Although he did not excel as a student ( he dropped out of high school in his fourth year and did not graduate ), his teachers described him as bright.

Jennings dropped out of high school in tenth grade to pursue music.

He dropped out of school in his senior year to become a stand-up comedian.

Between his junior and senior year of high school, Washington dropped out, claiming that he no longer felt challenged by the classwork.