Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...organized a digging party and cut a trench. In the center of the base of the mound, he found a caved-in shaft three yards in diameter. As the dirt that had fallen into it was carefully scratched away, treasure after treasure came to light...
...hazards within the pattern of brain surgery, Dr. Freeman has undergone a great change of heart. He has fallen completely out of love with the prefrontal lobotomy. in which a knife is inserted through a hole drilled in the temple, though he performed 624 such operations, most of them with Watts. Now he is a devotee of the transorbital lobotomy. in which approach to the frontal lobe is made through the eye socket (TIME, Sept...
...idea for the demonstration came from the musings of Conductor-Composer Richard Bales, a Virginian himself, who has long regretted that so much music associated with the Confederacy - Dixie excepted-has fallen out of memory. From libraries, and with the help of friends, Bales resurrected some 125 old Southern songs, all piano versions. Weeding through them, he selected ten solidly representative tunes, orchestrated them for sighing fiddles and haunting horns, and strung them together in a cantata which he called The Confederacy. The première brought out the rebels of the Washington area in full force...
...artillery pounded a 20-mile chain of tiny outposts. Before dawn the Chinese hit, and hit hard. Grim ROK troops fought off the Chinese at the foot of one hill, but retreated from four others. A few hours later, the ROKs gamely stormed back, recaptured two of the fallen hills...
Boston's Watch & Ward Society, longtime guardian of local morals, threw a big birthday party for itself in old Park Street Church after 75 busy years of rescuing fallen women, arranging for the banning of dirty books, and-its more recent concern-keeping police posted on gamblers and bookmakers. New Hampshire Republican Senator Charles Tobey, in fine oratorical voice, showed up to deliver a fiery speech against...