41.   He recklessly introduces several plot points only to inexplicably drop them like overused tissues.

42.   He dropped like an anchor that day and sounded like a wounded rhinoceros, and the entire franchise lost its pulse.

43.   He had been widely ridiculed for complaining about his treatment on Air Force One, and his standing with the public was dropping like a stone.

44.   He was in college, which is why, for such a talented player, he dropped like a rock in the draft.

45.   Her forehands usually drop like anvils into the corners of the court.

46.   His training camps were like eight weeks with the Marines and players dropped like flies.

47.   In fact, when her now-solid marriage faltered in its early years, some married friends dropped her like a hot potato.

48.   In fact, revenue is dropping like a stone.

49.   Inexplicably, cheese sandwiches are dropping like a stone on the Culinary Hit Parade.

50.   In this preseason that was more laborious than glorious, bodies have been dropping like extras in a John Wayne movie.