Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...should think that it would be fairly well known that the situation in Bolivia is, to put it mildly, completely loused up; output of just about every kind has fallen, not only the upper classes but also the productive, educated, technically skilled middle classes have largely left the country, inflation is rampant, and the whole place, really, has gone...
...could squeeze the people." Peking squeezed hard, cutting back cotton acreage at least 20% so that every spare clod of earth could be sown to grains. The result: China's 1962 grain harvest was up 10% to 182 million metric tons, while the cotton crop may have fallen to as low as 1,200,000 metric tons, down one-third from 1958. Further aggravating the situation at home, Peking sold huge amounts of cotton abroad to earn foreign exchange. With the onset of the chilly season, even the cloth wrapping on gift parcels from relatives abroad is used...
Another pause has come to Katanga, one of those ephemeral moments in which the nations of the West may examine their souls and reflect on how Mr. Tshombe's fall affects their plans for the Congo. There is no longer any doubt that Mr. Tshombe has fallen: beyond the gift of a week in which he must decide to yield his Kolwezi headquarters to U.N. troops or, by his refusal, consent to his political burial, the Katangan leader who juggled the world's anxieties for a year and a half has been left with nothing...
...Mewlin Rouge, so one day she departs for Purree in pussuit of happiness. Her boy friend, a hair-trigger mouser called Jaune Tom, hurries off to Paris as soon as he gets the bad mews, but he arrives too late to avert catastrophe: Mewsette has al ready fallen in with Meowrice Percy Beaucoup, a sinister allée cat who has designs on her chatsteté. As for Jaune Tom, what happens to him in the big city shouldn't happen to a dog, but in the end the hero hangs a mouse on the villain, and everything comes...
Lost to the Empire is now both name and glory. The realm, once one, hath fallen in triple lot. No man is Emperor, assessed in thought or honor, For king a kinglet, for realm the realm's dividings...