Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...impossible to see what happened behind the light, and Mrs. Frank cried: 'The children! My God! My God!' " In the hell of Belsen, Anne and Margot Frank lasted scarcely five months. They both became ill. Margot was in a coma for several days and was found, fallen from her bunk, dead. Anne was so sick that no one told her of Margot's fate. Says a fellow prisoner who watched: "Several days later she died peacefully, in the certitude that death was not a calamity...
...mention of the quickest way to cure France's money troubles: an end to the $4,000,000-a-day Algerian war. But while Monnet talked in Washington, Gaillard pulled through the French Parliament a measure which brightened hopes that some compromise, may yet be reached. After one fallen Premier and eight months of debate, both Houses gave final approval to a loi-cadre for Algeria setting up the framework of limited home rule by regional assemblies, and establishing voting equality for Moslem and French (TIME...
...said, "All right, you'll ride Nickleby tomorrow, and he'll win." The new jock was still riding scared. "When I got up on Nickleby," says Hartack, "I just sat and posed. I never moved, never hit him or nothing. If I'd 'a hit him I'd have fallen off, I was so frightened. But Nickleby win and paid $18, and I break my maiden [i.e., won his first race...
...arms as well as money) a general through whom he hopes to create a "Third Force" between the local right and left. And he gets mixed up with Phuong. The American is terribly fair about the girl. He tells the Englishman, even before he tells Phuong, that he has fallen in love with her. He intends, he says, to marry her and take her back to "the folks in Texas," and he belligerently allows to Fowler (whose wife, back in England, will not give him a divorce) that "a woman's entitled to the security of marriage"-adding thoughtfully...
...Myra Buttle-is remembered in a hundred years it will be for the fact that he threw a dead cat at a living poet. Before The Sweeniad nears its inevitable conclusion ("This is the way that Sweeney ends. Not with a curse but a mutter"), the satire has fallen heavily among the bric-a-brac...