Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Longing . . ." Anne became a young woman. "Each time I have a period-and that has only been three times-I have a feeling that in spite of all the pain, unpleasantness and nastiness, I have a sweet secret . . ." By her 15th birthday she had fallen in love with Peter van Daan. In the evenings she would visit him in his tiny attic, and the two adolescents would talk for hours, hold hands and occasionally kiss goodnight. Anne was not sure how to behave ("I am so longing for a kiss, the kiss that is so long in coming...
...latter only tossed $159 into the sheet. The freshman and senior pictures are taken on the same day and traditionally the seniors don cap and gown to beg the price of their pictures from the Yearlings. This time the gift was snubbed. Two freshmen partially retrieved the class' fallen honor by contributing $5 apiece...
...Humanité was back on the streets last week, it still had plenty of troubles. In France, where all newspapers have been losing circulation, no group has dropped more drastically than the Communist dailies. L'Humanité alone, once at a peak of 600,000, has fallen to an alltime low of 190,000. Ce Soir, the party's afternoon paper, is down to less than one-third of its 1947 circulation of 433,000. There are also signs that the new Communist "get-tough" policy for France leaves little room for weak papers that...
...aircraft armament, according to the planemakers, is that private enterprise has had no hand in its development. Instead, the job has been in the hands of Army Ordnance, an agency often entangled in red tape and horse-cavalry thinking. The result is that progress in plane armament has fallen far behind the improvement in planes. Said one planemaker: "We build an aircraft which is theoretically the best in the world, and the Army cripples it with World War II guns." (In Korea, the F-86 is armed with merely a jazzed-up version of the 50-year-old Browning machine...
When scientists try to explain the weatherworn, lichen-covered slabs, the activities of past diggers are as much hindrance as help. Inquisitive Roman legionaries made some confusing excavations. One of the larger stones, or Trilithons, is said to have fallen in 1620 when the Duke of Buckingham dug for buried gold. For years a Salisbury hotel kept a heavy hammer for the use of guests who were amateur relic hunters...