Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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About 11 p.m., Harvey testified at a hearing, he encountered a sudden tropical squall, which snapped the mainmast before he could reef sail. Mary Harvey and Dr. Duperrault were slightly injured but not badly, as the splintered mast pierced the deck. Harvey was separated from the others by the fallen mast; then fire broke out in the fuel storage tank, spreading to the crumpled sails. Quickly, Harvey released the dinghy and a raft, ordered the others to abandon ship. Then he dived after them and swam to the drifting dinghy. He recovered René, unconscious while floating in an oversized...
Influenza. Various virus subtypes cause the disease, so need is for a general-purpose vaccine. Lederle Laboratories' civilian vaccine combats four strains, including Asian. Manufacturers say Public Health Service delayed too long in warning of probable outbreaks this fall and winter, so output has fallen behind need. Demand is high; black markets might develop. Made from viruses grown in incubating eggs and killed with formaldehyde, flu vaccine gives only moderate, far-from-permanent immunity. No major improvement in prospect. Russia, despite setbacks, is trying to perfect an influenza vaccine that can be inhaled or swallowed...
...Pittsfield sympathized with the wrongdoers, rationalizing that "if these men had violated a law, there must be something wrong with that law!" The new managers sent by the company to replace the convicted price fixers were suspiciously regarded as "hatchet men" and "company tools." The town looked upon the fallen executives, who made salaries ranging up to $125,000, as heroes who "had done what had to be done in a business world that wasn't moral anyway; and because they had at least created jobs, they were the 'moral' ones...
...dreaded by my enemies, and respected by my allies. Riches and honors, power and pleasure, have waited on my call, nor does any earthly blessing appear to have been wanting to my felicity. In this situation I have diligently numbered the days of pure and genuine happiness which have fallen to my lot : they amount to Fourteen: O man, place not thy confidence in this present world...
Mulligan was extremely handsome as Brown, and this quality greatly enhanced a role that, if played by an archetypically ugly bourgeois gentleman, would have fallen flat. His plodding was that of a sincere man, not a machinator, and his final self-destruction becomes all the more pathetic. As for Dion and his wife (Bronia Stefan), both seemed more comfortable after O'Neill got his (or their) early soliloquies...