Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Frustrated at every turn, the Negroes had long since fallen to quarreling among themselves in bitter factionalism. "If," says King, "you had asked me the day before our protest began whether any action could or would have been taken by the Negroes, I'd have said no. Then, all of a sudden, unity developed...
...Republicans, hove into a California court and met an old acquaintance, Restaurateuse Sally Stanford (real name: Mabel Janice Busby), now retired from a crimson career as one of San Francisco's red-hot madams (her once-elegant Pine Street hostelry is now a booze dispensary called the Fallen Angel). At the Valhalla, Sally's fancy restaurant in Sausalito, Bridges was caught in the men's room last September by two seamen, both unfriendly members of the Sailors Union of the Pacific. They worked him over, choked him with his necktie, kicked him, groined him, blackened...
...newer tradition has it, they play him offscreen all the time. In Robert Alan Aurthur's Tale. of the Comet, Studio One offered a case history of the TV comic as a tragic hero-a lonely figure tortured by self-defeating uncertainty amid the debris of his fallen ratings. Tim Tully is a onetime top banana who trampled 19 writers in three seasons in his frenzy to stop slipping. As the play opens, he is on the eve of an attempted comeback that seems doomed by his panicky fear of failure. In a series of skillfully managed flashbacks, Tully...
...final total was not yet known, Stone said, but he predicted that the $14,000 goal would be "way above what we take in." The drive has fallen far behind last year's collections, which totaled $10,000. Average contributions have dropped from $4.50 last year...
...while studying at night, has bought and sold several Ohio companies with his brother Edward, now chairman of Minneapolis-Moline, and is still president-owner of Cleveland's toolmaking Maxwell Co. The Reddigs began investing heavily in Minneapolis-Moline based on its growth potential, though its earnings have fallen 92% since 1950. The Reddigs plan to diversify into heavy industrial machinery and highway equipment...