Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...government to continue its task . . ." In the stunned silence, the Premier stalked out. It was all very unusual, to quit before being thrown out. Next day Pinay announced: "I'll never go back to that bear cage again." The black-market rate of the franc, which had fallen from 480 to a low of 390 during Pinay's save-the-franc administration, began climbing, and reached 420 only two days after his downfall. That familiar word, devaluation, was heard again in a land where the cost of living has jumped 45% since 1948 (the U.S. increase...
...Venturi had seen the painting often before in Rome's dimly lit church of San Luigi dei Francesi. But this time, aided by the strong artificial light of the Milan gallery, where it was on loan, he thought he saw a vague overlapping of paint surfaces around the fallen figure of St. Matthew. He persuaded government art authorities to X-ray the canvas...
...News added its own fillip from its correspondent in Copenhagen who cabled: "Chris now is a girl I could have fallen in love with had I met her under different circumstances." At Bentwaters Air Force Base in England, reporters found a U.S. Air Force sergeant who said he had dated Christine six months ago. When they asked him for details, he obligingly observed: "She's got a personality that's hard to beat, and the best body of any girl I ever met." Many an editor and reporter found himself in the same fix as father Jorgensen...
Iraq last week counted the consequences of a coed's tears: a fallen cabinet, 15 to 20 dead, hundreds wounded, $200,000 worth of damage, troops in the streets...
Converted Prostitutes. Their pet project, however, was something called "Urania Cottage," or "Miss Coutts' Home for Fallen Women at Shepherd's Bush." A good half of the letters in the volume are concerned with the difficulties of reconstructing Jezebel in the image of Mrs. Grundy...