Word: falle
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...most they could hope to delay and fall back, into the vast reaches of south China and onto the island of Formosa for a test stand. But barring a miracle, they had no prospect of stopping the Red tide...
Uphill Struggle. During his campaign for the governorship last fall, Muñoz had electrified voters with a rousing, un-demagogic slogan, "Jalda Arriba!" (Uphill!). To crowds thronging around him he had cried: "The job takes time. We are going uphill." Since then, Jalda Arriba has been set to music and chorused at political rallied...
After a classical Swan Lake and the sprightly Fancy Free, they got the main course: Agnes de Mille's Fall River Legend, with Nora Kaye, the big-eyed little ballerina who has made Fall River one of Ballet Theatre's signatures as well as one of her own. She spun through the story of the gentle, murderous New England spinster ("Lizzie Borden took an ax . . .") like something out of a Freudian nightmare, and her audience loved...
...started when Cinemactor Randolph Scott and a movie troupe went to Death Valley last fall to shoot scenes for The Walking Hills, and Ranger Stan was assigned as technical adviser. Between takes Stan would haul out his guitar and twang some of the songs he has composed while out on ranger trips. Scott & Co. told him he was great, that he should sell his songs in Hollywood...
...Niebuhr says that Historian Arnold Toynbee's monumental effort to discover the pattern of history "belongs to one of the most impressive intellectual ventures of our age." But he does not hold with Toynbee's daring hypothesis that religion may be advancing onward & upward with the rise & fall of civilizations (TIME, April...