Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...homosexuality touched off the most violent reaction. "Bad, retrograde and utterly to be condemned," snapped Lord Beaverbrook's Evening Standard. "Freeing adult males from any penalties could only succeed in intensifying and multiplying this form of depravity." Lord Rothermere's Daily Mail agreed: "Great nations have fallen and empires decayed because corruption became socially acceptable. [The proposals constitute] legalized degradation." "There's no knowing where it will end," complained a woman M.P., Mrs. Jean Mann, on television. "We may even have husbands enticed away from wives...
...most welfare-minded economy in Latin America has fallen on sickly days. The cause: too much government interference. The effect: a general disillusionment expressed in endless strikes...
...another 200,000 cars, predicted a total of 6,000,000 this year. The company's dealer orders are bigger than the production goals in several lines. Chrysler's cars are still selling well, and even General Motors, whose 1957 Buick and Oldsmobile models have fallen behind, expects no real trouble preparing for major model changeovers. G.M. is leading in a huge $25 million autumn bonus cleanup campaign by the industry that will help Detroit enter November with a normal inventory of 200,000 cars. As for 1958, say the automen, the 7,000,000 customers who made...
What makes the inflationary spiral particularly crippling is that carloadings, the bread and meat of railroading, have fallen 2.9% up to mid-August, partly reflecting some tapering off in the economy, partly bad weather (floods and crop failures). Livestock and products, though only a small part of loadings, dropped 24.5%; lumber and other forest products, hit by a decline in housing starts, were down 12.9%. Coal was down 1.1%, merchandise shipments of less-than-carload quantity down 8.7%. Most important, the miscellaneous category that includes almost all U.S. manufactured goods and makes up roughly 50% of all loadings dropped nearly...
...final attempt to storm Cassino, 13 divisions of the Fifth and Eighth Armies, backed by overwhelming fire and airpower, smashed into the four German divisions clinging to the shattered defenses. At first the Germans held on, then retired to the north. It was only half a victory: Cassino had fallen, but the German Tenth Army got away...