Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...enthusiasm, the new peace machinery seemed certain to pass its first test impressively-so impressively, in fact, that Acting Secretary of State Lovett considered urging the O.A.S. to set up a similar system for consultation among the American republics on concrete measures to support democratic governments before they fall...
...eight months, as chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nürnberg trials, Robert H. Jackson, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, had listened to Nazi bigwigs trace the rise & fall of Hitlerism. The big lesson of Nürnberg, he told a New York lawyers' meeting last week, was that Hitler doomed himself when he exiled scientists, suppressed information and halted intellectual progress. Why not, asked Jackson, in effect, let the Russians, who are making the same mistake, wither in their own stupidity? Said...
...This fall the footprints of a big unknown bird were found in the wild mountainous country near Lake Te Anau on South Island. Dr. Geoffrey Orbell, a physician from Invercargill, led an expedition to look for it. They climbed up into the wilderness close to snowline. At last Dr. Orbell saw what looked like a takahe. Battling his excitement he crouched to take a picture while the other members of the party, two men and a girl, crept cautiously around and threw a net over not one, but two takahes...
...reason for this year's big kill was a spectacular drop in the price of fox furs. Pelts that brought as much as $32 apiece before the war were selling this fall for as little as $12. Nieman, who figures it costs him about $30 to raise a fox to maturity, stood to lose $18 on each pelt he sold this year...
...tuberculosis; in Sussex, England (where he recently arrived after a 20-year self-imposed exile in France). A British-born Anglophobe, Briffault left medicine for the social sciences, in 1927 writing The Mothers, an exhaustive study of matriarchies, and in 1938 scornfully castigating his country in The Decline and Fall of the British Empire (Britons were too soft to survive). His novels (Europa; Europa in Limbo) presented European upper-class society as too diseased to be worth saving...