Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Physics, particularly, has fallen into disrepute and has become a subject which "good students don't want to take and good teachers don't want to teach...
...elder DeVoto, writing in his column, "The Easy Chair," in the September, 1955, issue of Harper's Magazine complained of the "deplorable state" into which the land had fallen. "Hell's Half Acre," as he called it, had been "tolerably quiet, tolerably fresh, and a pleasant place to have in a city of 130,000 people" but had recently become an illegal dumping place for Cambridge refuse...
...eyed vision of urban redevelopment experts, the crash of demolition hammers and the thunder of falling brick. In many U.S. cities Skid Row is marked for extinction to make space for shining (and more taxworthy) office buildings or glassy, classy apartment houses. Kansas City's Skid Row has fallen to an expressway. City planners in Denver have their eye on Larimer Street, and Los Angeles is midway in a civic cleanup on most of East Fifth Street's Skid...
...girl of the title (Ellie Lambetti) is the daughter of a well-to-do businessman on the island of Hydra. Her father was killed in the war, and his family has fallen on evil days. To keep the big house going, they have let all the servants go, and they take in transients during the season. They take in two young men from Athens, one of whom (Dimitri Horn) soon has his eye on Marina. At first she is cool. She is bitterly ashamed of her family's poverty, and almost morbid with humiliation when the whole town starts...
...pathetic little heroine of A Night of Levitation is a teen-ager who has fallen in love with a boarding-school teacher. Having been sent to an island resort to get over her infatuation, she promptly falls for a crude, shrewd young local fisherman. After a stolen hour of duel-like talk and romance by the sea, he simply lifts the money in her purse and disappears, leaving a note that reads...