Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...more tournaments of all kinds than any other golfer, living or dead. He has come tantalizingly close to winning the Open, too-and (in 1938) he has also fallen as low as a tie for 38th place...
...wheat in tight supply, the International Wheat Agreement worked fine, at least for the importing nations, which got what they needed at bargain prices. But recently, with wheat in surplus, I.W.A. has not worked so well. Such nations as France and India, which have had good crops, have fallen far short of importing their quotas. And Britain last year refused to renew its I.W.A. commitments, complaining that the new maximum price demanded ($2.05 a bushel) was too high...
...apostles of virtue." The snag was that young Ben, raised by a good mother, was himself a disguised apostle of virtue. He would prance into a brothel "playing drunkard and whoremonger with all the vocabulary at my command"-only to find himself clutching the hand of a fallen sister and begging her to reform. He even took one young prostitute to live with him and "encouraged her to weep over her vile life." He "read books to her every night," while she "lay nude . . . listening like one bewitched." Disillusionment came when the young shepherd returned home unexpectedly and found...
...sorts of irons in the fire. Pola, who used to outhawk her own pressagents with whoppers about her past (e.g., she once claimed that she had been divorced from a Pope of Rome), now made big talk about her future. Items: a movie comeback this fall as a fallen woman in a German production, an autobiography in the works which "will cover my life and loves from Chaplin to Valentino-and those who came before and after." At week's end Pola, looking pert and still glamorous, was photographed after she landed in New York for a two-week...
...rigid press censorship dates from the civil war, when Franco published a "provisional law" giving the state the right to appoint and dismiss editors. By daily directives to editors, the government also dictates what to print and what not to print. As a result Spanish newspapers have fallen into such low esteem that the combined circulation of all seven of Madrid's dailies does not even equal the circulation of one daily before the "provisional law" went into effect 16 years...