In a quieter moment, the colonel dropped his smile and acknowledged that he would be "very, very happy" to leave here.

But then the colonel dropped his bombshell.

The colonel shrieked and dropped the gun-which luckily didn't go off-and clapped his hands to the now-bloody ear.

Douglas was giving a speech addressing the harmful practices of the Army Corps of Engineers when the colonel in attendance dropped his pen on the floor.

For there it lay where the colonel had dropped it, in exac'lytill( ', right position on the carpet, the focal-point of the corn, position.

The colonel shrieked and dropped the gun -which luckily didn't go off - and clapped his hands to the now-bloody ear.

The colonel dropped without uttering a sound.

Both colonel and captain dropped their attitudes of masters to a servant.

The colonel dropped.

The witness told of how Secretary of State Shultz clapped an arm of praise around his shoulder, and the colonel dropped the names of mid-level officials who helped him and sought his help.