Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...slew his father, lay with his mother and could no more than any other mortal "make the gods do more than the gods will." Through TV, perhaps millions were able for the first time to see and hear the people of Thebes bid farewell to their fallen, blinded king with Sophocles' final lament...
...thith country." The inscription on his grammar-school graduation program read: "Appearance-politician. Besetting sin-politics." At twelve he spoke for the Harding-Coolidge ticket. He thrilled to the drama of his first national convention in 1924, returned to take over the chairmanship, from an adult who had fallen ill, of the finance committee of Alameda's Coolidge-Dawes Republican Club. Billy raised funds, paid bills and shared in the credit for Alameda's thumping Republican majority...
...biggest labor union, instructed local officials to threaten factory and mine employers with a strike if any Hungarians were hired. Like any other confidence man, the party wanted no swindled customers mingling with the suckers and queering its pitch. Its alarm was well-founded. Already, C.G.T. membership has fallen off sharply in factories where Hungarians had gotten jobs...
...they fell on my cheeks. I gritted my teeth, almost hating America. Hating America who had left us here." They expected the worst, and it soon came. The Bataan Death March has never been more graphically described in print. In a berserk frenzy, the Japanese bayoneted and shot the fallen, walked alongside the marchers with impaled American heads on their bayonets. On the second afternoon, as the bone-weary, mouth-parched prisoners waited alongside a cold, bubbling stream hoping for their first drink of water, one of the men broke ranks and buried his face in the stream. "A Japanese...
Fortunately, self-conscious passages such as these are as rare as caviar on the MLR. The humbler truth contained in both The Last Parallel and Give Us This Day is that America is blessed in her fighting men. Of them, as of the fallen Athenians whom Pericles mourned more than 2,000 years before, it might well be said that "esteeming courage to be freedom and freedom to be happiness, [they did] not weigh too nicely the perils...