Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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These arguments come down to this: there is a breach in the Iron Curtain; it would be weak, criminal, to pass up such an opportunity of strengthening ourselves at Russia's expense. We must do this right away because otherwise Tito will succumb to Stalin's blockade, have to fall back into line. We are taking risks--that war may somehow come out of this, or that we may lose face or money--but all policies, especially strong ones, involve some dangers. At any rate the status quo is unsatisfactory and if we do run a little risk in trying...
Other Harvard crews placed third in the Eastern Intercollegiate Star Class Finals at New London, third in the Brown Fall invitation Regatta, and third in the Freshman Dinghy Championship elimination races at M.I.T., thus qualifying for the finals in this event...
Eighteen-year-old Denise Chambon was one victim of the annual bac (baccalaureate exam) and trac (student term for butterflies in the stomach) that thousands of French youths (and anxious parents) suffer through each fall. Looming at the end of seven years of intensive secondary schooling, the bac orals are the big hurdle for French schoolgirls and boys. To the 65% who pass, success means a bachot certificate and eligibility for entrance to a university or employment in many civil service and professional jobs effectively closed to non-baccalaureates...
...many artists must fall by the wayside," mused aging Master Henri Matisse, "for the one that comes through." Most of the 1,000-odd artists exhibiting in Paris' annual "Salon d'Automne" last week had indeed fallen by the wayside. But at least a half dozen had come through...
...reality behind God's back, which He passed over when He made the world and made it good." Thus, evil is nothingness; and the man who wants to sin-"that is, to 'sunder' himself from God and from himself"-is doomed by, his disobedience to fall into this uncreated nothing...