Word: fall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Konrad Adenauer caught his toe in a rabbit hole, banged his knee, limped home to Germany from a vacation in Italy, and appeared before a meeting of the Christian Democrat parliamentary group leaning on a cane. "Gentlemen," said the bunny-bugged Chancellor, "I did not fall on my head. Remember this in case you hear something else...
...racially embattled Little Rock, a prime point of interest last week was a religious conversion. Not long ago, Clothing Dealer Jimmy Karam was a pal of Governor Faubus, a segregationist leader of the 1957 riots at Central High School; during last fall's elections, he faked an inflammatory picture of a Negro family agitating for "equality" (TIME, Oct. 6). But now invective ("lying bastards, gutless s.o.b.s.") is gone from his lips. He holds court in his Main Street store, telling all comers that "only Jesus is important. If everybody could take Jesus to their hearts, there would...
...flash of impact would have been visible against the moon's sunlit surface. He questions a Hungarian report of seeing a long-lasting dust cloud on the moon. Since the moon has virtually no atmosphere, dust particles tossed up from the surface will follow trajectories like bullets, and fall back or disperse in a few seconds...
While the initial NDEA grant to Harvard was only $27,000 (the University gave the entire sum to the Graduate School of Education), an additional $100,000 reportedly has been received and an even larger grant is expected this fall...
...customary room accommodation problems that beset Masters every September are particularly troublesome in Lowell and Kirkland Houses this fall, according to Masters Elliott Perkins '23 and Charles H. Taylor...