Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...such as belts, swords, guns, cartridge boxes, and many other things, were different. As many as ten different saddles were in use, and of the many army homes-tents-there were a great variety." Artists' sketches were often scrawled with advice to the engraver ("N.B. Put as much fallen timber and dead limbs between the figures...
...York Stock Exchange. On one day, so many sell orders accumulated for G.E. stock that it took four hours before the price could be set and the stock opened. In turbulent trading during the day, 238,500 shares changed hands. By week's end G.E. stock had fallen more than $7 to about $62 and Westinghouse stock about...
...Eisenhower closet, no cataclysmic secret-intelligence reports. But he had discovered that even a well-informed, alert Senator and President-elect has no conception of the responsibilities of the U.S. presidency. Shortly after April 12. 1945. Harry Truman said that he felt as if a load of hay had fallen on him. Kennedy was showing something of the same load, but being Kennedy, he came out fighting. He had also discovered, like many a predecessor, that he was bound in his high ambitions by the same realities that had bound the previous Administration-including the realities of Congress...
...then it vanished. When the jewelers pressed for payment, Marie Antoinette said she had never received it, never sent a messenger, and had not uttered a word to Cardinal Rohan since he had fallen into court disgrace several years earlier. The cardinal, it appeared, had tried a desperate swindle to extricate himself from debts even more enormous than his income. He was ushered to the Bastille...
...portrait and others, the countess was an incurable cocotte. But she was a likable one, and also never let guilt or bitterness interfere with gaiety. In London, she wrote, she was able to look at it all and laugh sufficiently to "dampen her dress." She died at 35, having fallen from a third-story window during a carouse. Or was she pushed by French revolutionary agents? The book leaves that question, and most others, tantalizingly open...