Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...consisted largely of troop movements by old as well as new enemies. Führer Hitler had massed German soldiers in the eastern tip of his new protectorate of Slovakia, only 75 miles from the Rumanian frontier. If Rumania was physically to fall to Germany (after Hungary had also fallen), other jackal nations might have a chance to dash in and grab a few mouthfuls as they did twice in Czecho-Slovakia. The Hungarian Army lined up 300,000 men on the Rumanian border. Even little Bulgaria, to the south, mobilized...
...whole body is twisting in a useless effort. His chest tries to expand to inhale some air, and His head has fallen sideways. . . . Convulsions shake His body from head to foot. His heart is beating wildly. Red tears are streaming down His cheeks. Oh! His head has fallen completely backwards, and it looks as if He had fainted...
Moslem custom decreed that the bride should be absent. Because of another custom, the couple had never met until two weeks before the wedding. (Rumors that they had met and fallen in love in Switzerland were last week denied.) The Crown Prince's strong-willed father, Shah Reza Khan Pahlavi, had arranged the match so as to bring together not only Egypt and Iran but also two great Moslem sects, the Sunni and Shiah, which for years have been as unmixable as oil and water...
Although Lazaro Cardenas justifies the expropriations on patriotic grounds, there is no question that they have almost brought Mexico to its knees economically. Oil exports have fallen 50%. Cost of living is sharply up. And Cardenas has promised that within ten years Mexico will compensate for all it has taken. General Amaro was the first Presidential candidate to broach this issue. "I deem it unpatriotic," he stormed, "to create obligations of an international character for the country in the knowledge that we have not the financial capacity to comply with them...
...Angeles, charged with drunkenness, Glen Quiney took off his shoes, testified: "Sure I stagger and shuffle. You would too if you had feet like mine. Look at those corns and those fallen arches." The jury looked, acquitted...