Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Committee was meeting, and that big shifts were in the making. Then, early one grey morning, when the newspapers of the Western world were already responding to the news broadcast by Radio Moscow, the 4:40 a.m. edition of Pravda broke it to Russians: Malenkov, Molotov and Kaganovich had fallen. They were...
...piece orchestra launched into the opening bars as the distant view of the Jemez range faded in the dusk. Tenor William McGrath and Soprano Maria Ferriero soared expertly through Lieut. Pinkerton's and Cio-Cio-San's famous love scene climaxed by her Twilight Has Fallen, and Butterfly's lingering, final-curtain suicide touched off a round of applause that lasted through ten curtain calls. Technically, there were a few first-night bobbles. Gusts off the hills threatened to sweep away the Japanese screens, but Stage Director Bill Butler was jubilant. Said he: "At least...
...nights of Lebanese dances and village songs. More dramatic than the music are the floodlit temples of Jupiter and Bacchus, which form a backdrop for the performers. Last season there were so many visitors that the government's Department of Antiquities had to move a 60-ton fallen temple block to make room for more seats...
...Philharmonia opened with a somewhat lackluster "Egmont" Overture, then launched with enthusiasm and devotion into Zoltan Kodaly's Psalmus Hungaricus, whose words, based on the 55th Psalm, were written during the 16th century Turkish rule in Hungary ("O hear the voice of my complaining/Terrors of death are fallen upon...
...effect on the lives of the most mobile people on earth. One out of every seven Americans earns his living in some phase of highway travel; 80% drive to work; 85% take their vacations and pleasure trips by auto. Yet U.S. highways, sadly neglected during World War II, have fallen far behind the growing numbers of automobiles, trucks and buses, now up to 65 million. The new roads will ease present congestion, be able to accommodate the nearly 90 million vehicles that are expected to speed over U.S. roads by 1972. With fewer curves, no crossroads and a wide center...