Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the voting started, Wiley barely led the field of six on jthe first ballot. By the second, he had fallen behind Representative Glenn R. Davis, 41, a toothpaste-smile isolationist, who had been sweet-talked into running and promised a $150,000 campaign fund. When the third ballot started, Wiley did not even wait for the result. With tears in his eyes, he and his British-born wife made their way quietly through the crowd and out the door. For Alex Wiley, it was a bitter pill -administered on his 72nd birthday...
...almost tiresomely long: beyond established names like Bert Lahr, Ruth Gordon, Rex Harrison, Joseph Schildkraut, Shirley Booth, there were young or foreign ones like Julie Andrews, Andy Griffith, Earle Hyman, Siobhan McKenna. It was the season when, thanks to Comedienne Nancy Walker, Noel Coward's generation-old Fallen Angels was restored to life without having previously ever lived, when Orson Welles played King Lear in a wheelchair, and when Susan Strasberg, in the title role of Anne Frank, was raised to stardom...
...Aram, Saroyan brought to this simple message an elfin charm, an infectiously wacky humor, and a flavor of childlike sweetness, as if his tales had been stolen from some happily hidden jam pot of life. But of late, the middle-aging (47) pixy of U.S. letters seems to have fallen into the writers' trap Kipling once spotted: "When you know what you can do, do something else." Mama I Love You is a near parody of what Saroyan could once do, and suggests that it is time for Saroyan to shoot Santa...
...point of the story is that the little girl grew up to be a movie star named Marilyn Monroe, and the dream came true on such a preposterous scale that her new wide world has fallen at her feet. In Hollywood's pagan pantheon, Marilyn Monroe is the Goddess of Love. Furthermore, she has shown signs of becoming a good actress, and many a once-skeptical professional now thinks she may become an outstanding...
...been allowed to pursue the Korean war as he had wished to, Bunker felt that we would have driven the Reds completely out of Korea, the Communists would then not have been able to win in Indo-China, Mao Tse Sung's government would have fallen, and the Chinese Nationalists would have been able to return to their homeland...