Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week the sharpshooting young (40) governor found he had fallen wide of the mark. In a hotly contested primary election, the "many" dumped Fred Hall from the copper-domed State Capitol, sidetracked his frank hopes to parlay Kansas popularity into an eventual trip to Washington...
...desert journey of what they regard as life's everyday meaninglessness. After one passionate week on the Riviera stretches into two, Dominique finds that she cannot hand Luc back to his wife in quite the airy way in which she took him. But Luc has not fallen in love, and before novel's end, Dominique has to do the penance she has always detested-the waits by the telephone that doesn't ring, the anguished, banal begging ("I can't live without you") and the ever-present taste of ashes that even whisky will not wash...
...hold a meeting in our own party home." To the 300 people who braved police surveillance to crowd into Samsun's small, stifling party headquarters he announced his determination to fight for the repeal of Menderes' new law, and added: "The graveyards of Europe are filled with fallen dictators...
Grimmer still were the pictures of persons with horrible flesh burns or radiation-induced fallen hair and bleeding gums. The series ended with a ghostly shot of human silhouettes against granite--all that remained after the persons were totally vaporized by the bomb...
...dropped from 422,187 units assembled in 1955's first half to 243,541 in the same period this year, the sharpest (42%) slide in the industry. Plymouth's share of total auto production, which stood at 9.92% in 1955's first six months, has fallen to 7.63%. Dodge, the company's No. 2 seller, has fallen from 179,188 units to 108,545, a drop of 40%. Its proportion of auto output fell from 4.2% in 1955's first half to 3.4% this year. The De Soto decline from...