Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...point, Amini picked up the phone and told a fellow landowner: "I know you've spent $75,000 trying to overthrow me. Please continue, and I'll clap you in jail." Said a Teheran politico: "If Amini had wavered for a moment, he'd have fallen...
After two weeks of getting to know the family, it's time to come out again into the brave new world. This is because after two weeks what is called "early fallout" has all fallen out (of the sky). A few radioactive elements such as strontium 90, cesium 137, and carbon 14, however, may remain aloft for months, and are therefore referred to as "delayed fallout." The Defense Department considers delayed fallout "less dangerous," even though "the long-term damaging effects of such exposure (to delayed fallout) are not yet known in great detail." So you needn't worry about...
...with Spartacus and his slave revolt; the S.A.O. officers see themselves as Roman legionnaires holding off the Red barbarians on the marches of empire and sending back semaphore messages warning Rome?or rather, Paris?to "beware of the anger of the Legions!" A typical S.A.O. manifesto recalls French soldiers fallen in colonial wars: "Our dreams are full of their death, and often at night we hear the desperate cries of the colonial peoples whom we were forced to abandon as our departing boats tore the last French flag from their gaze. The thought of our Tricolor, having led everywhere, having...
...Richard Diver (Jason Robards Jr.), a young American psychiatrist, attached to a clinic in Zurich, who has committed an emotional breach of professional ethics: he has fallen in love with a patient named Nicole (Actress Jones), a charming American girl whose father has left her several million dollars and a psychosis-the aftermath of an incestuous episode. The head of the clinic (Paul Lukas) urgently warns Robards against the union: "A man cannot be both lover and psychiatrist to the same woman. You cannot be an impossible image of perfection, a god. and a husband too. When she discovers...
James G. Elaine, a Maine Republican, came to the speakership in 1869, when the House had again fallen into bedlam ways. With nearly 250 members crammed into a tiny chamber, the House was known as the "Bear Garden." When all else failed, Elaine flung himself on a couch behind his desk and suspended business until order was restored. Elaine strengthened the speakership with the ruling that a party was obliged to ratify the candidate chosen by the majority caucus-thus ending the chaos of intraparty and coalition candidacies (under the Constitution, the Speaker need not even be a member...