Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Under the law of the English, whose writ ran for a third of mankind, it was fixed that whenever a person, however humble, died of violence or even unexpectedly, public inquiry was made into the causes of his death. If guilt seemed to fall upon another, a trial was held and punishment sought lest murder, undetected or held lightly, spread...
...daily lives. Now, with independence, with the possibility of modern states, each community saw behind the other the shadow of the policeman and the propagandist. The Indian communities rushed into violence not to seize power, but out of the fear of the power that was about to fall into the hands of others. And this is a primal fear, deeper than rivalries between such nations as have already known and submitted to police power wielded in their own names...
...think the responsibility of keeping the home full of love and comfort," said Novelist Hans Habe generously to a woman interviewer, "is at least as great as making a buck." The author of A Thousand Shall Fall did not mean, he hastened to add, that women should "just stay in the kitchen," but: "After all, somebody has to bring home the bacon and somebody has to cook it. But it is not a natural man's nature to bake the bacon...
...Saturday duties present a small variation from his daily fare. Last year he watched Varsity games from the Stadium roof where he could supplement by telephone communication Dick Harlow's limited view at ground level on the players' bench. This fall he makes varsity substitutions, crouching on the sidelines in front of the bench and giving players the final world before they go into the game. Harlow leaves him a free hand in this matter following a general overall briefing before the game and precluding unforeseen difficulties...
...bright note in the Crimson's defeat was the performance of last year's. Freshman cross country captain, Joe Leeming, who has been on the injured list all fall. Leeming was running well at the halfway mark, but at the beginning of the second loop, his knee knocked out of him again and he had to drop out of the race...