Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Sick List. Until the Senate acts (and probably afterward), the Watkins report stands as the most crushing blow that has fallen upon Wisconsin's Joe McCarthy since his spectacular political career began. Last week, when the committee was putting the final touches on its report, McCarthy canceled the only three speeches he had scheduled before the election. His aides said that he was troubled by a sinus condition, would have to enter a hospital...
...Parson Elwin's "blessed girls" in 1887. Emily was as rare a bird in her way as Elwin in his: she was in angry rebellion against the Victorian way of life. Urged to become maid of honor to Queen Victoria, Emily snorted: "I must indeed have fallen low to considered just the type to keep company with the royal family...
Blockade. In Portland, Me., Frank J. Cipriano returned to the hospital that had just released him, reported that he could not get into his apartment because his key had fallen into the cast on his broken...
...store and dry seeds of grain, cutting roads six inches wide through vegetation to reach their crops. Most harvest ants march out together to gather the seeds, then straggle back with their burdens. Some ants which return without grain apparently feel embarrassed, pick up a useless pebble or a fallen petal and carry it along for show until they get home...
Standing in its path are miniature models of guided missiles or their components. By the time the wave of gas reaches them, it has expanded so much that its temperature has fallen to that of the stratosphere, about -68° F. But when it hits a model, friction heats the gas to 7,000° F., making it brightly luminous. The gas streams around the model like the glowing trail of a meteor. The flow lasts so short a time (1/1000th of a second) that the model is not damaged, but this brief period is long enough to permit...