Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this stake in the last few decades. The Divinity School, natural focus for religious thought, has fallen behind the other Graduate Schools, both in funds and leadership in its field. Religious activity in the entire University has suffered from the peculiar attitude of those students and professors whose notable tolerance toward diversity and dissent does not seem to extend to religion...
...successful only if rain came from the seeded cloud but not from adjacent clouds that were not seeded. When a cloud's temperature was below 19° F., the trick worked every time. Individual clouds dropped as much as ½ in. of rain that would not have fallen naturally...
...seen a man killed in a riot, is disenchanted with the dangers of putting her ideal of freedom into practice, has fallen out of love and is escaping to Europe. "Where do people like us belong?" she cries. "Not with the whites screaming to hang onto white supremacy. Not with the blacks-they don't want us. So where?" But even as she leaves, she knows that she will return and that she has "accepted disillusion as a beginning rather than...
...atmosphere of gloom has fallen over he Senate office of Joseph McCarthy. The television lights are still blazing, the investigators working as hard as ever, but the Senator's Hooper-rating is down. And like the skilled public entertainer he is, McCarthy knows this fact is due to a lack of material...
...Under Communism, the people are getting even less meat and dairy foods than under the Czar. Russia's human population has climbed 50% in the past 37 years (to 210 million), but its livestock supply has fallen 2.6%. The hard figures (in millions) as given by Khrushchev...