Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...vast and featureless plateau 750 miles across and two miles high. And here, protruding into space, is the heartland of the antarctic's terror, the vat where much of its wrath and weather is brewed. Over this plateau sweep winds from distant seas, and here snow crystals have fallen like eider down, layer on layer, millennium on millennium. The meridians of the earth converge upon this great snow desert, closing in to pinpoint that half mystical, half mythical objective of adventurers, scientists and explorers, the South Pole. At the Pole the temperature may drop...
...order and carry on their activities ..." But Kadar's biggest headache was the coal miners. Less than half of Hungary's 100,000 miners were at work, and coal production was down an estimated 70%. Last week those coal miners who had not either fled or fallen in the fighting sent Kadar a spunky, three-point ultimatum demanding 1) his immediate resignation, 2) withdrawal of Soviet forces to their barracks, 3) free elections...
...Righteousness." His body was "white as snow and red as the blooming of the rose," his hair was "white as wool," and when he opened his eyes they lighted the house "like the sun." Fearing that Noah was really the child of "the Watchers, the Holy Ones or the fallen angels," Lamech spoke to his sister-wife about it in no uncertain terms, and she in turn replied "with great vigor," reminding Lamech of the intimate details of Noah's conception...
Never in peacetime had business worked so hard, yet fallen so far behind demand for many of industry's products. Detroit's automakers alone poured $1.7 billion into expansion in 1956, but at year's end were embarrassed by a shortage of 1957 models. Railroads shelled out $1.3 billion for expansion, and were plagued by one of the greatest freight-car shortages in history. Utilities and mining expanded by $6 billion, and were still beset by complaining customers...
...Washington, mortified Air Force representatives restricted themselves to saying that no search was being instituted in view of the wide area in which the Snark might have fallen. The State Department, however, was hit hard by the news that it probably had crashed in the Brazilian jungle. For months State's negotiators have been seeking permission for construction of six missile-tracking stations along the Brazilian coast. So far they have been unsuccessful: the Rio government, under pressure from ultranationalists and Communists, has been hard to pin down. Said a department officer bitterly: "That Snark might just as well...