Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...thick fog made an extensive search impossible on Sunday, and the two spent the night in the hut. They located Flint's body yesterday morning, about a third of a mile away. Flint had apparently fallen to his death during a rainstorm the day before...
...voted to seek independence, Abubakar Balewa, the Northerner, warned his countrymen against the results of such feckless politicking. "We must do all in our power," he said, "to protect our country from the civil discord and strife into which some countries-and here I am thinking of Indonesia-have fallen after achieving independence." The Colonial Office, in its anxiety to see that the transfer of power is peaceful, has an even more unhappy comparison in mind: that of India and Pakistan, whose baptism of freedom took place in a bath of blood. By summoning the proud chieftains of Nigeria...
...once during the week to see a movie. The film: Anastasia, starring Oscar-winning Cinemactress In grid Bergman Rossellini. Ingrid, in Paris, kept determinedly calm about the Indian uproar. Roberto, however, came closest to unburdening himself when he told some of New Delhi's staunchest citizens: "I have fallen in love with India. I intend to become an Indian citizen and not return to Italy." The week's developments were perhaps best summed up by Hollywood Pundit Sheilah Graham: "I'm inclined to believe that there is trouble in [Ingrid's] marriage with Rossellini...
...enlightenment." The last, written in 1940, three weeks before Joyce's death, is a note of thanks to the mayor of Zurich for giving Joyce and his family asylum from the Nazi war machine. It reflects the "painful times" on which the age of enlightenment has fallen...
...organizers have built their campaign around charges that the company union has represented its members ineffectively. As a result, they claim, the University has fallen behind MIT (whose employees belong to Local 254) in wages, working conditions, and fringe benefits...