Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...used the hospital Mimeograph machine to crank out a revolutionary newspaper called Truth. The editors were Gyula Obersovszky, onetime cultural editor of a provincial newspaper who had been expelled from the party for organizing a satirical cabaret show, and Jozsef Gali, ailing survivor of Nazi concentration camps, who had fallen into disgrace with the Communists after his play Freedom Hill had become...
Waiting for Money. After Morocco got its independence, the economy staggered under the flight of French capital. Industries have slowed down, the tourist trade has fallen off. By unhappy coincidence, drought has parched the fields, and a slim harvest means hunger, discontent, and a flight from the starving countryside into the already bursting bidonvilles. Morocco is also confronted with the need of developing its own administrators, technicians and civil servants (the government's daily business is still conducted by some 11,000 Frenchmen). A crash educational program has been devised: private houses converted into schools, teachers drafted...
...that productivity has never risen at a steady rate. Economists estimate that between 1910 and 1953 there were eleven years when productivity actually fell, e.g., during wartime, productivity declined as the flow of materials and manpower was disrupted. Even in times of boom, as at present, productivity has often fallen; plants operating at top capacity find it hard to raise output...
...certain Anglo-Saxon eccentricities ("But Madame, what for you want a bathroom? Have you not got the sea?"). The Durrells were soon ensconced in a strawberry-pink hillside villa (the first of three), and after they began breakfasting under tangerine trees, bathing from crescent-shaped beaches that looked "like fallen moons" and exchanging the beautiful Greek greeting chairete (be happy) with their neighbors, the Durrells realized that they had fallen under the spell of the wine-dark...
Never again need a conscientious Widener book-borrower trudge through the black of the night at 3 a.m. in the hope of returning a book that has fallen due, only to find no place to return...