Word: fall
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...French used to say, pocketing the 5-centime change on their glass of Pernod. But this ancient expression of French thrift became meaningless when, with the fall of the franc that began with World War I, the sou gradually descended to its present poker-chip worthlessness of one-hundredth of an American cent...
...other major union meetings last week, the nation's mine workers (680,000 members) and railwaymen (370,000) took the same position. And over the BBC a somewhat chastened Frank Cousins made a promise of his own: should the Labor Party Conference next fall reject his view, he would go along with Gaitskell, who still seemed to be very much in control...
...University of South Africa) and London, peddling cosmetics and doing odd jobs. In London, broader-minded officials gave him a permit to study in the U.S., but Njoroge had to borrow passage money (he still hopes to pay back the ?60), arrived in the U.S. in the fall of 1951 with just 3?. A fellow passenger lent him taxi money and $1.50 for a Y.M.C.A. room; the Committee on Friendly Relations Among Foreign Students lent him $70 bus fare to get to California. After a succession of odd jobs and premed studies, he finally entered Stanford University School of Medicine...
...though the situation may be, stocky (5 ft. 7 in., 155 Ibs., 38-28-38 in his padding) T. C. Jones is sticking to his specialty. "I'd like to play Dame May Whitty's part in Night Must Fall," says he, "or Bankhead's in The Little Foxes.Half the time people don't even know I'm not a woman. When I pulled offmy wig at the end of New Faces, one woman said audibly: 'Oh, the poordear, she's bald...
Tate's four summers at Harvard have been by invitation. "After a certain age one never applies," he laughed. He added he has "lots of friends" in Cambridge and Boston, spends weekends at the Cape and in Maine, and is going to Tennessee before returning to Minnesota in the fall...