Word: befallen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Under specific fire from Day were President Johnson and "his supposedly liberal" administration. Terming the Civil Rights and Poverty Bills, "crumbs to the alienated," Day warned that Johnson's "broad party of consensus" threatens the civil rights movement with the same failure by inclusion which he feels has befallen American labor...
Heekey (5-3-2)--The icers have so far had the fallest schedule of any of the Yardling squads. Their biggest weakness is defense, as witnessed by the close 3-6 victory over New Prep last Saturday. Despite this flaw, only two total disasters have befallen the team, a 7-3 rout by B.C. and an 3-3 massacre by B.U. The squad's only other loss, to Mxeter, 5-4, came in overtime...
...incident recalled a whole chain of mysterious misfortunes that have befallen Germans linked to Egypt. Last summer the private plane of an Egyptian supplying arms and technicians blew up over northern Germany, killing his wife; in November two airmail parcels addressed to German Rocket Engineer Wolfgang Pilz blew up when opened in his office in Egypt, killing five Egyptians and disfiguring Pilz's German secretary. Then, on a road near the West German town of Lörrach. a would-be assassin fired a pistol shot at a professor engaged in electronics research for Egypt; the bullet missed...
...husband is impersonated by Henry Fonda, who is slightly more handsome than Walter Kerr (though Walter is easily the better critic). In the movie version of Please Don't Eat the Daisies, of course, the Kerrs were played by Doris Day and David Niven, a fate that has befallen nobody else in Larchmont...
...things didn't warm up; a studio man turned up the thermostat. Then Jack and Bobby walked up to the platform, took turns standing at both speakers' stands while they gazed at their images on the floor TV monitors. Mindful of the lighting trouble that had befallen his opponent in the first debate, Kennedy noted "all those lights pointing over here" (at his position), and "only one points over there" (at Nixon's). Muttered he, as technicians scampered to adjust the lighting: "Let's not have all the lights in my eyes." As before, Kennedy disdained...