Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...invited the State Department of Education to supervise the testing, only to find that the department had no such tests on hand and would have to get them from Chicago. At week's end the tests duly arrived: the last bastion of segregation in Ohio had finally fallen...
...bomb watchers have not yet reached full conclusions about the Soviet tests announced last week (without details) by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission. They are pondering two facts: 1) the rain that fell on Shikoku Island on March 24 was the most intensely radioactive that has yet fallen on Japan; 2) none of the government's 13 microbarograph stations recorded any shock wave...
...still feel among the disinherited. Desiring all the supposed advantages of the house system, members of Dudly have taken time-consuming jobs in order to be able to afford the extra $1000 of house residence. As a result of the jobs, the marks of many have fallen, often causing them to resume their residence at home--only with the distinction of being non-resident house members...
...Look at Eternity. The cunning fakery of the sets was dwarfed by the outsize playing of the big cast. Director Hill, 31, an ex-marine fighter pilot, still cannot believe his luck: "If one actor had missed his cue, the whole thing would have fallen apart. Every single actor came in on the button. It was the most beautiful week I ever spent. Everybody realized that it was an experiment in trying to open up TV to the kind of fast, intricate cutting only possible to get in films...
...wire, Devon Loch, Queen Mother Elizabeth's big brown gelding, had England's Grand National Steeplechase at Aintree practically put away. "Devon Loch wins," said the bulletin that went out on press association wires, but then: "Cancel! Cancel!'' Suddenly Devon Loch had slipped and fallen. The unexpected winner: a ioo-to-7 long shot named E.S.B. (for its sire, English Summer, and dam, Bider...