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.

He dropped out of school at the age of 14, after being expelled for hitting a female teacher in the face.

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.

This worked somewhat differently from an Ethernet bridge, where only the header of the incoming packet would be examined before it was either dropped or forwarded to another segment.

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.

The way in which the Chinese land mine trigger worked was a system of two steel wheels rotated by a falling weight, the chord of which was wound around their axle, and when the enemy stepped onto the disguised boards they released the pins that dropped the weights.

Whitehouse dropped out and lived with other drop-outs in a council flat in Hackney, east London and occasionally worked as a plasterer.

Records sold because their fidelity improved, mass production processes were soon developed, advertising worked, and prices dropped from one and two dollars to around 35 cents .".

Dembski dropped out of school and worked at his mother's art business while reading works on creationism and the Bible.

" Spiegel disliked O ' Toole, having worked with him on Suddenly, Last Summer ( where O ' Toole was an understudy for Montgomery Clift and considered to take over his part after Clift's alcoholism caused problems ), but acceded to Lean's demands after Finney and Brando dropped out.

Ford soon dropped the " J " and worked for Universal Studios, playing minor roles in many television series throughout the late 1960s and early 1970s, including Gunsmoke, Ironside, The Virginian, The F. B. I., Love, American Style, and Kung Fu.

When Fangio was 13, he dropped out of school and worked as an assistant mechanic.

The peasants worked till they dropped and citizens were forced to pay huge taxes.

He dropped out in 1909 and worked as a farm labourer and did various odd jobs until he happened into acting.

At 16, Maurice dropped out of school and worked with his father as a machinist and that was his only income other than some income in the winter with the senior Canadiens.

In early 1968 he dropped out of college and worked at a series of minimum-wage jobs.

He worked on a three-year accountancy course but dropped out.

After his freshmen year, Granville dropped out of high school and worked with his father at Eastman Kodak.

His readership gradually dropped, and when his home paper, the New York Daily Mirror, where he'd worked for thirty-four years, closed in 1963, he faded from the public eye.

Redmond dropped all interest in agrarian radicalism and, unlike the mainstream nationalists, worked constructively alongside Unionists, such as Horace Plunkett, in the Recess Committee of 1895 which led to the establishment of a department of agriculture in 1899.

He worked as a soap boy in a barber shop, rubbing lather into tough whiskers, then dropped out of high school at 13 after landing a good-paying job in a cork factory.

Powell worked side by side with Fred Astaire in Royal Wedding ( 1951 ), when she was brought in to replace June Allyson, who had become pregnant, and then Judy Garland, who dropped out due to illness.

On May 29, 2009, the Department of Justice requested and received an injunction against the member who had carried the nightstick, but against the advice of prosecutors who had worked on the case, department superiors ordered the suit dropped against the remaining members.

His father had dropped out of McGill University's medical school due to the Great Depression and worked a variety of jobs — sometimes more than one at a time — to support his wife, three sons, and two daughters.

:" He never married ; he had no country house ; he looks, in his portraits, a fastidious, fine gentleman ; but he worked till he dropped and he lectured when he was dying.

He attended ninth grade at the Nantahala School but dropped out after that year and worked as a carpenter with his older brother Daniel.

During an absence of Jenners, Minton's allies worked to have the hearing request dropped and the Judicial Committee sent the measure to the full Senate in a vote of 9 to 2.