Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...that in the first thousand years after Charlemagne, French currency was devalued 40 times. In the 19th century, the gold franc was such a rock that the currencies of half Europe were pegged to it. Lately, though officially pegged since 1949 at 350 to the dollar, the franc has fallen almost as often as French governments. Last week at long last the French government took notice of the franc's real worth and, without using the horrid word devaluation, in fact devalued...
...must settle-this crisis at any cost. If we allow Félix Gaillard to walk out, he will become the most popular man in France." In the end, Gaillard got his way. But by then, with France's reserves depleted and its credit exhausted, the franc had fallen to 436 to the dollar on the free market, the lowest in five years...
...three legendary miracles are enacted at one side of the stage: an Italian Renaissance woman finds her dead child coming back to life, a Scottish lass sees her cow revive, and a German soldier of the Thirty Years' War exchanges his own life for that of his fallen brother. (Each of the episodes is sung in the language of its setting.) Then back to the living room. Tracy yawns, looks up at Laura and asks: "What the hell are you doing on your knees...
Ever since she went to London four years ago, critics have fallen over themselves in praise. Said the London Times: "It is not possible to exaggerate the artistic value of her performance. When Miss Rosalyn Tureck plays Bach, all talk about the necessity of having a harpsichord to recapture Bach's style seems little short of nonsense." The Tablet: "Without doubt, the greatest Bach pianist of today." After last week's performance, Amsterdam's Algemeen Handelsblad said: "One could exhaust oneself in expressions of praise . . . Her interpretation sets a new norm, a standard for the style...
Knorke was 17 months old and a sick gorilla when Nurse Rosemarie Hohler first saw him. Bought by the West Berlin Zoo to replace Pongo, its prewar gorilla bayoneted to death by Russian soldiers, Knorke had been flown in from the French Cameroons, and had promptly fallen sick of paratyphoid fever. Zoo officials sent Knorke to the City Hospital, put the sad little ape in quarantine in a sealed-off room, and explained that paratyphoid, though usually only a mild human disorder, can be fatal to gorillas. Looking compassionately at Knorke, 24-year-old Rosemarie volunteered to go into quarantine...