Word: befallen
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This is the point at which greatness enters Moore's performance. Sarah will die--of tuberculosis--in this state of uncertainty, but with both her husband and her former lover attending her deathbed--touched, perhaps, by some dim, unspoken understanding of Sarah's acceptance that grace has befallen her. The final irony is that it is the worldly Maurice who will be given the last piece of the puzzle, near-irrefutable evidence of her saintliness...
Fifteen Minutes regrets to inform the general public of a tragic accident which has befallen two magazine staff writers. On Saturday, Feb. 27, 1999, Ginnie and Russell Independence of Colorado Springs, Colo. were found dead on a mountain in Lake Placid, N.Y. Sources inform FM that Mr. and Mrs. Independence suffered fatal injuries as a result of skiing while under the influence of alcohol. The coroner's report found concentrations of the following substances in the blood of the two victims: 12 eggs, separated1 quart heavy cream 1 1/2 cups superfine 1 quart milk sugar 1 quart bourbon cracked...
Fifteen Minutes regrets to inform the general public of a tragic accident which has befallen two magazine staff writers. On Saturday, Feb. 27, 1999, Ginnie and Russell Independence of Colorado Springs, Colo. were found dead on a mountain in Lake Placid, N.Y. Sources inform FM that Mr. and Mrs. Independence suffered fatal injuries as a result of skiing while under the influence of alcohol. The coroner's report found concentrations of the following substances in the blood of the two victims...
Inertia of the same kind has befallen fans nationwide. For six of the last eight years, the championship was a given and ratings were high. For four months, teams of lawyers, cell-phone-toting players' union representatives strung us along us along, finally gracing us with a season when the financial consequences of doing otherwise were too grave to bear...
...class oppression in the late '60s. The Lucy Parsons Center has been an anchor for the politics and culture of Cambridgeport, as well as greater Boston's new and old left, progressive, punk, labor and intellectual communities. We will not allow it to suffer the eradication that has befallen so many of our institutions in these neo-Calvinist times...