Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...strategists. "If they want to get tough," said Big Jim, "I'll show them that I can get tough, too. I'm not looking for a fight but I certainly am not going to sit down and do nothing . . . Let them start something and see the heads fall...
...million had finally been approved by the House Foreign Affairs Committee. Yet U.N.'s bill stood a chance of getting lost in the shuffle of unfinished congressional business. Said James Dawson, U.N. Coordinator of Construction: "We will need every break to be ready for U.N.'s fall meeting...
...blocked by congressional inaction, could only mark time. The bocce players, in their quiet corner, looked safe at least through the summer and fall...
...last week the Mukden garrison was hanging on. They were even momentarily confident, largely because the expected Communist offensive was two months overdue. Ruddy-cheeked, pipe-smoking Commanding General Wei Li-huang thought perhaps the Reds had not replaced the losses suffered in last fall's attacks. But, though the Communist attacks were beaten off, it was at heavy cost: the Reds had captured foodstuffs which might have fed the city for 15 months...
Cinemactor Ronald Reagan took a fall, landed hard, busted his coccyx...