Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Great nations have fallen and empires decayed because corruption became socially acceptable." So warned London's Daily Mail when the government-sponsored Wolfenden report on sex recommended going harder on prostitutes but making homosexual practice involving consenting adult males no longer a crime. In the 14 months since then, with the help of leaders in the opposition Labor Party who feel the same way, Home Secretary R. A. Butler has managed to avoid a parliamentary debate on the subject. Last week, after assuring himself that Laborites were not longing for action now either, Butler rose in the House...
Gauging Hangovers. "She is altogether too good for your preschool children." wrote TV Critic John Crosby, "and should have a show aimed at older children, say. me.'' Among older children who have fallen for her are Pat Boone and Jerry Lewis. Sammy Davis Jr. will stay up all night to be sure to catch her show when he is in New York. Other adult male viewers find the going a bit sticky. Says one: "Much depends on the strength of one's stomach, extent of one's hangover, love of young mothers, and ability to endure...
...would take too much space to detail all the inaccuracies your reporter has fallen into. A sample: I am not, and never was, a supporter of "the old system of proportional representation" against which I have consistently fought for the last twelve years...
...source for the Offenbach comic operas, as well as for the Gilbert & Sullivan ones. But Goldovsky has proven to anyone's satisfaction that it is more than a textbook "influence," that it is an eminently viable stage work today and does not merit the obscurity into which it has fallen, especially when the almost ubiquitous Barber of Seville is not a whit better...
...Sweezy, one of Marx's errors was his theory of the social revolution. Marx predicted that capitalism would fall first in industrialized countries, due to oppression of the working classes. History reveals, however, that "in the most advanced capitalist countries the standard of living has clearly risen and not fallen," Sweezy noted...