Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...years since then, there has been trouble. New York papers, like most others, have been hard hit by spiraling costs (TIME, June 21) and by competition from TV; readers have moved out of the city, and even though they still commute to work in Manhattan, many have fallen into the bad habit of reading suburban papers. As a result, New York dailies have dropped 9% from the 1947 total circulation peak, although national newspaper circulation is at an alltime high of 54.5 million...
...Atomica. Currently, U.S. policy suffers from what one State Department man calls "a heavy military bias." Too many U.S. officials have fallen into the habit of measuring progress (or security) exclusively by the number of nuclear explosions, the number of divisions mobilized. The result is that the U.S. is stuck with a warlike vocabulary (e.g., "massive retaliation"), while the Communists, who continue to aggress, have stolen the words of peace (e.g., "coexistence...
...backboard. "I have to take so many pills," he said, "they have to fight among themselves if I take them too close to gether." His daily quota of alcohol, though still substantial enough to keep him in good standing among the alltime public enemies of the W.C.T.U., had fallen far below the old records. Gone were the uninhibited, wine-purpled, 100-proof, side-of-the-mouth bottle-swigging days of the swashbuckling young Ernest Hemingway who was "the bronze god of the whole literary experience in America," the lion-hunting, trophy-bagging, bullfight-loving Lord Byron of America...
...retreat from a one-price policy point up the astonishing growth of discount houses. They now have 85%-90% of major appliance sales in the U.S., according to the National Retail Dry Goods Association. Since 1939, said NRDGA, department-store sales of electrical appliances have fallen from...
...Memorial Church bell, which human hands have tolled for 311 years, has fallen prey to the modern ago and will soon be operated entirely by automatic control...