Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...bullet through his own head. Flying into town, Castro jailed Matos as a "traitor," "ingrate," and an ally of two other prominent Cubans purged because of their anti-Communist pronouncements-ex-President Manuel Urrutia and ex-Air Force Chief Pedro Diaz Lanz. Spat Castro: "The three musketeers have fallen...
From temperance club to neighborhood pub, these heart-searing words have echoed in countless performances since they were put down more than a century ago by an actor named William Sedley and picked up by P. T. Barnum, first big producer of The Drunkard, or The Fallen Saved. Last week The Drunkard's lachrymose prose reverberated no more in Los Angeles, where the show was revived in 1933 at the small, stucco Theatre Mart and reeled on for the longest run in U.S. theatrical history: 9,477 performances. The play was a victim of exhaustion and the local fire...
...first jobs was to work out a plan to help the House of Morgan meet the new conditions. Its assets had fallen from $118.6 million in 1929 to $39.2 million in 1940, as steep inheritance and income taxes ate away its strength. To save the firm from faltering, Morgan and Alexander worked out a plan to incorporate the old partnership, make it a public bank. In 1940 the firm changed its name to J. P. Morgan...
...daily train to Detroit. The conductor let him build a tiny laboratory in a corner of the baggage car, and Tom fiddled with test tubes, chemicals and batteries. One morning, his arms full of newspapers, Tom tried to swing on to the departing train. He would have fallen under the wheels if a trainman had not hauled him aboard by the ears. Something "snapped" in the boy's head, and his deafness may have started at that moment. Years later, Edison wrote: "I haven't heard a bird sing since I was twelve years...
...Ampter is a human sacrifice to Bloch's God complex. This^ view may be colored by Chevalier's personal resentment (although he claims that "this book was written not with hatred but with love," the novel's underlying tone suggests an ex-worshipper stomping on a fallen idol). But strangely enough, the Atomic Energy Commission came to a very similar conclusion about Oppenheimer. In its own bureaucratic language, it also spoke about pride and arrogance of judgment: "The record shows that Dr. Oppenheimer has consistently placed himself outside the rules which govern others...