Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...these speeches, rounded up in one long article that filled half of Pravda and was broadcast lengthily over Radio Moscow, the corn-belt commissar cockily sounded off on art, literature, ideology -and Georgy Malenkov. Khrushchev charged that the man he ordered off to central Asian exile last July had "fallen under the complete influence of the sworn enemy of the people and the party, the provocateur Beria," and become the late secret-police boss's "shadow and tool." Said Khrushchev: "Holding a high position in the party and state, Comrade Malenkov not only did not hold Stalin back...
...graveyard attack on Malenkov, Khrushchev seemed to be setting the stage for a Stalin-style treason "trial" of his fallen rival. But Soviet specialists in the West do not think that Khrushchev wants a show trial at this point: they suspect that he may simply have concluded that Malenkov's reputation needs further blackening. Malenkov is still identified in the Russian public mind with the promise of more goods and fewer cops-a program which Khrushchev opposed but now wants to identify...
...midday sun sears her still form, lying quietly in the dust. She is herself a fallen bridge between mankind's sundered parts. For a moment, before the small arms shatter the brief truce, Helga Reinbeck's silence is louder than all the guns...
Competition & Customer. In downtown Washington, D.C., eight, or about half, of the city's big discount houses went out of business in the past year. The shakeout is almost as severe in Los Angeles, Boston and Dallas, where dozens of small discounters have fallen by the wayside. A St. Louis discount house, H. E. Krisman & Co., pushed its gross to $3,500,000 annually-and lost $200,000 doing it. Says George Wasserman, owner of Washington's George's Warehouse: "The big ones are holding their own, but the little ones are going out of business...
...learns his first sobering lesson-"How dies the wise man ... as the fool." With life's occasional flair for overemphasis, the lesson is repeated when Arthur's first wife, Hope, dies from the aftereffects of childbirth. Something else has died first-the youthful illusion that they had fallen in love with each other, when they had only fallen in love with love. In name Hope was a wife, in reality she was a permanently affronted virgin. Reflecting on the ignorance of his early years, Arthur Winner learns another lesson: "Youth's a kind of infirmity...