Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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News. In San Francisco, Night City Editor Larry McManus of the Chronicle got a call from a country correspondent about a traffic policeman injured in a fall from his motorcycle, asked where the cop had been going, got the reply: "Oh, to some airplane crash...
...Modern man . . . staggers between belief and disbelief, revolt and humility, anarchy and obedience. . . . The people of our age are restless, excitable and fatigued. . . . Many fall into despair and cast themselves of their own will into that post-mortem darkness. . . . [Modern man], in his equality with God, either becomes a tyrant or joins the army of the despairing and dying...
...were immediately killed by the crowd. On May 23, 1618, two royal councilors, Czech Catholics, and the secretary of the royal council, were thrown from the windows of the council room of the Hradcany into the moat 50 feet below. Not one of the three was killed by the fall. This defenestration was the beginning of the Thirty Years...
Avon had been a fancy prep school for rich kids until the middle of World War II. Now it was getting ready to reopen in the fall. The school's new head had hired Butch (for 50? a week) to live in the place, so he could see how an ordinary boy would improve on the carefully arranged surroundings. The new head, Provost Donald W. Pierpont, 41, needed all the hints he could get to make sense out of the "Deed of Trust" that the school's founder had left behind...
...With the fall of Czechoslovakia, the world's areas of press freedom were narrowed down more than ever. Nevertheless, the U.S. last week sent a delegation to the U.N. Freedom of Information Conference at Geneva. The State Department had found it hard to fill the team, captained by William B. Benton, ex-Assistant Secretary of State. Part of the trouble had been the State Department itself...