Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...sunny valley of the Fuerte River, along Mexico's Gulf of California coast, not enough rain has fallen in the past six years to settle the dust. Yet last week 123,550 acres of the valley's virgin soil lay plowed and planted for the first time in history. Crisscrossing the land was a symmetrical pattern of brand-new concrete canals and irrigation ditches filled with fresh water. Higher up, in the foothills of the Sierra Madre Occidental mountains that parallel the coast, lay the source of the life-giving moisture: the new, stone-faced $16 million Miguel...
...unexpected atmosphere of sweetness and restraint has fallen on Turkey's landscape of savage political warfare, and no Turk can imagine how long it will last. Premier Adnan Menderes' economic troubles seem to be at the bottom of it. While exploiting his Democratic Party's 455-to-86 Assembly majority to enact a whole series of laws curbing the press and restraining political discussions, the tough-minded Premier has pushed his all-out campaign to expand Turkey's productive capacity so far that Turkey is heading for a stern economic reckoning...
...heroines leads inevitably to disaster and thence to New Understanding, the passion pulps themselves are making a heap of tin out of sin. In the last ten years, while the magazine ranks have been riddled by casualties, only two confessional slicks have gone under. Though their combined circulation has fallen to only half the Korean war peak, the fall-off has stopped and today the 24 monthly and quarterly romance-mongers (top price: 25?) enjoy a steady circulation of more than 10 million. In the 38 years since the late Muscleman Bernarr ("Body Love") Macfadden blazed the trail with True...
...Mendel, like all Lubavitcher Rebbes, looks upon himself as spiritual "shepherd" of all Jews everywhere-Hasidic or not. He lives modestly with his wife in their $75-a-month flat, devotes his whole time to the Torah, to his flock and to directing missionary work among Jews who have fallen away from the Orthodox faith. As he sees it, the most important injunction for Jews is not to compromise in matters of faith and observance. "Compromise is dangerous because it sickens both the body and the soul . . . One must do everything, but at the same time we welcome the doing...
...roof has fallen in on the American building industry," said William Levitt, one of the nation's largest builders, as he surveyed the plight of the U.S. homebuilding industry last week. Though his pessimism was exaggerated, Levitt and his fellow builders had some reason for concern. The U.S. Department of Labor announced that housing starts in February fell to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 910,000 units, the lowest point in five years. Housing and Home Finance Administrator Albert M. Cole held to his prediction that at least 1,100,000 new housing starts will be made...