Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Stalin, after copious draughts of vodka mixed with red pepper, had fallen asleep in his chair. Molotov, Malenkov and Beria, with fingers to their lips warned off intrusive domestics who might interfere with the great man's repose. While they guarded him, he had a dream...
...Friendship's Sake, is a Swedish bestseller, declared indignantly: "It is a human right to go to bed with someone you like without being insulted by society." After all, she and others pointed out, prostitution is fast dying out in their country. They accused the doctors of having fallen into the clutches of Moral ReArmament, argued that morals are not the province of physicians or priests but of psychiatrists. Indeed, Moral ReArmament may have been an indirect influence behind the morality petition; two doctors in a Stockholm clinic who helped initiate it are supporters of the movement. But, said...
Inquisition or romance unrolls a faded rug before the fallen yellow sun before the prickly tree fringe beyond the stones and chimneys...
Secrets of the Confessional. But even Dutchmen who grudgingly agreed that Irene had fallen in love with a proper stranger were still disgruntled over the manner in which the affair had been handled by The Netherlands' government. The nation especially resented seeing popular Queen Juliana humiliated when she first announced that the engagement was off and then had to eat her words. In the lower chamber of Parliament, beleaguered Cabinet ministers eventually found a convenient scapegoat in the government information service, and promised in the future to improve communications between palace and public...
...grabbed his gun, dashed out of his hut wrapped only in a bath towel, and started shooting. The gun's recoil jarred the bath towel off. As the guests, including Lord Louis Mountbatten, gawked at his lanky (6 ft. 3½ in.), naked figure, Ripley enthusiastically retrieved the fallen Picus. After dressing, he urbanely rejoined the party...