Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...only were Hungarians forbidden to demonstrate; they were forbidden to mourn. They were warned not to wear arm bands or to display candles in their windows. Secret police even knocked on the doors of birthday parties. Heavy chains were hung across the gate of the Magyarovar grave site of fallen Freedom Fighters. All Budapest dared to do was to boycott all cafés, cinemas and places of entertainment...
...Communists have mobilized all their resources of manpower. In Anhwei, where no rain has fallen for two months, 9,000,000 peasants, led by 3,000 Red cadres, dug emergency canals, lugged water on their backs to sprinkle 5,000,000 parched acres. In Honan, more than a million formed bucket brigades to bring water from the rivers to fields sometimes ten miles away. In Hunan, China's "rice bowl," 600,000 persons labored around the clock. In Shantung, all military units suspended drill and moved to the drought front. Thousands of schoolhouses were shut down, and in Honan...
...nations in the world (some $43 million for fiscal 1957), but because its economy is so primitive, Laos has practically no trained personnel to administer it. It was a situation marked for trouble, and last week the trouble had become acute. U.S. aid to Laos has fallen into a bog of misdirected effort, diverted profits and squeeze...
...displayed its power too nakedly, set Arab leaders off in a whipped-up frenzy of public denunciation of U.S. interference and pledges of confidence in Syria. As a result the bloc of "reasonable Arabs" - Lebanon, Jordan, Iraq and Saudi Arabia - which the U.S. hoped to solidify had fallen into suspicious disorder. Jordan's King Hussein, plagued by a $20 million deficit in his army budget and under fire for his close involvement with the U.S., nervously shot off last week to an oil pumping station on the Iraqi-Jordanian border to ask the aid of his royal cousin, King...
Soon the machine went into action, and both the Communist Party and Writers' Union denounced Author Dudintsev as a talented, well-meaning fellow who had fallen victim to "distorted and pessimistic'' notions. In a preface to this translation Dudintsev dutifully supplies a mitigating explanation of what his novel is all about. But no explanation is necessary. The book is a major, fascinating document of life in Soviet Russia...