Word: befallen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...enemies could be slowly tortured to death before his eyes. The days of victory did not last forever. The king's scribes duly recorded Assurbanipal's thundering lament: "I did well unto god and man, to dead and living. Why have sickness, ill-health, misery and misfortune befallen...
...surprises await him on each new visit to his favorite museum. Sir Alfred Mun-nings, the late president of London's Royal Academy, once put the point in verse. On returning to a museum, wrote Mun-nings, a man "may discover, too late, alas! that a change has befallen...