Word: fall
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army will widen. Perón, conscious of this danger, has harped on the theme of "nefarious forces" attempting to sabotage his regime. Government newspapers have recalled that 1,500,000 died in the Mexican revolution. Evita, echoing the ominous note, said last week: "If I have to fall I will fall in front of my descamisados and at the side of General...
...summer meeting at Rockingham ended last week, some 300 owners were left stranded - including scores of one-or two-horse owner-trainers who need purses to buy meat and potatoes. In an effort to give these horse-racing DPs a break, Rockingham Park got permission to open its fall meeting on Sept. 13, three weeks ahead of schedule...
...intellectual who believes in God. It is not a mild and vague belief, for he accepts "all the articles of the Christian faith"-which means that he also believes in sin and in the Devil. After sneezing, he was once heard to murmur that it was "because of the Fall." He was referring, not to the season, but to the Fall of Man, which Christian theology holds responsible for the major disorders of mankind. Lewis is scornful of many modern intellectual and moral fashions: he thinks a Christian can do worse than imagine God as a fatherly ancient with...
Double-Barreled Approach. The job of drawing up a solution and selling it to Congress next January would fall to the new, top Air Policy Commission.*Already in the blueprint stage is a program sketched in by the services, the State Department, the Civil Aeronautics Board and ACC subcommittees. Its goal: a new production minimum, which would probably run to 40 million pounds of airframe a year. Its double-barreled approach: 1) to move all first-class mail and parcel post by air; 2) to help airlines buy the new planes necessary to carry the load with federal loans...
Free Play. The Securities & Exchange Commission finally published the results of its exhaustive inquiry into the causes of last fall's sharp break in the stockmarket. There was no evidence, said the report, that manipulators were to blame. In fact, said SEC, the drop of 10½ points last Sept. 3 was the result of no more than "the free play of different opinions as to when to buy and when to sell...