Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Paris. Although he did not draw a single capacity audience, the turnout was greater than he had expected. On his last night (he later left for a brief rest in Zurich before starting a tour of other European countries), he drew a crowd of 11,000. "We have fallen in love with the French people," he told them. "We like everything about you, even your coffee." After the service, a Russian princess came backstage, knelt on the floor and begged Billy to visit the Soviet Union. Billy agreed to go if the opportunity arose...
Carried to its proper conclusion, Our Lord would have come from a large family indeed, if we follow their interpretation that "brethren" signifies actual brothers and sisters: "Then was he seen by more than five hundred brethren at once: of whom many remain until this present, and some are fallen asleep." (1 Corinthians...
Every highbrow worth his martini nowadays has enough psychoanalytical know-how to trace his best friend's fallen arches back to infantile stresses and strains or to see homicidal tendencies merely as the mask of a basically shy, reticent character. Now, thanks to the appearance of this book, any lowbrow can also learn to take the first fumbling steps towards a total misunderstanding of human nature...
Miss Cowen fled up the hall screaming, then fainted. She remembers next being picked up from the floor where she had fallen after being struck by one of the assailants...
...plush quarters for the football team, at least not for this season. Prospects for a special pre-season training camp at Red Top--pre-Yale crew training quarters--or at a Duxbury summer camp have fallen through...