Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Cuba's fanatic, poorly armed rebels last week tried to smash President Fulgencio Batista with the ultimate weapon of civilian revolutions: the general strike. But Batista, a tough, wilier strongman than such fallen dictators as Argentina's Perón or Venezuela's Pérez Jiménez, saw the blow coming, prepared well, warded it off with hardly a bruise...
...against the piddling 5% average recovery rate among lay addicts, California's fallen healers have also scored a phenomenal comeback record of 92%. Main reason, writes Dr. Louis E. Jones, the state medical board's secretary-treasurer, is the humane technique of coping with them. The board immediately revokes an offending physician's license-but usually lets him go on practicing on probation for three to five years. For this privilege, he must give up all use of narcotics unless prescribed for him (or his patients) by a licensed physician. The hope of reinstatement proves a tremendous...
...orchestra has fallen into an almost unvarying pattern of choosing programs consisting of one large work, which is just beyond its technical capabilities, and some smaller works which are easier to handle. They lavish time and attention on the big work, with varying degrees of injury to the lesser ones...
...explained that "big chunks" of the satellite may have fallen into the ocean without disintegrating. There is also the possibility that parts of Sputnik II, for instance the large rocket motor, "may remain in orbit, although as of yet we have no evidence of this...
...that were both bracing and silly, a caricature of a monumentally pompous pundit, are apt yet perfunctory. Fortunately, time has not weakened Author Dos Passes' power to describe places and incidents. The Great Days has fine sketches of World War II and a sharply drawn portrait of the fallen Ro wandering the streets of Havana and maundering of the days when "there were all the fish in the sea to catch, all the whisky in all the pubs to drink, all the grand guys in the world to be friends with." There is a certain poignancy, however vague, about...