Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Journal was not alone in feeling a sinking sensation. The Audit Bureau of Circulation, the admen's statistical bible, showed that the Saturday Evening Post and McCall's had also fallen below their circulation bases for brief periods during last spring's newsstand slump...
...than 90,000 in the first half of 1948. It was the ups & downs of newsstand sales that had hit the Ladies' Home Journal: its average sale for the six-month period was above its base of 4,500,000, but the April, May and June issues had fallen below it. So now the base was being lowered to a more conservative...
...campaign buttons had blossomed on the nation's lapels. There had been no attempts to distribute scurrilous handbills, or launch whispering campaigns. The once brassy voice of the C.I.O. Political Action Committee had fallen off to a scarcely heard murmur. Democrats (who except for Harry Truman, were sure they would lose) and Republicans (who were sure they would win) displayed the utmost reluctance to contribute funds. The campaigns cost more than ever (price of a two-week transcontinental tour: $50,000), but the war chests of both parties had been all but empty for weeks...
...like a suggestion rather than an order. Ben-Gurion and his ministers took a leisurely day and a half and four cabinet sessions to "study" the document and take full advantage of their luck. By the time U.N. got around to sending a clear cease-fire order, Beersheba had fallen and the control of the Negeb desert was solidly in Israeli hands...
...from closed; U.S. newsmen who had been pressing for a solution reserved judgment, waited to see what would turn up at the Staktopoulos' trial. As for Fugitive Mouzenides, he might be a hard man to find. Markos' radio had announced last summer that he had "fallen in the struggle for the freedom of Greece...