Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...politicians managed to convince the world last week that the brink of war was near. "Foreign forces of North Viet Nam have attacked." cried the Laotians. "An estimated strength of six battalions." Next day Information Minister Bouavan Norasingh announced dramatically that the northern provincial capital of Phongsaly had just fallen, though "our troops fought to the last bullet." Who had captured Phongsaly? Bouavan stared at the ceiling for a moment and answered: "The Viet Minh and the Chinese Communists." With no way of knowing what was actually going on along the remote frontier, the U.S. took the news with...
...curtain has just fallen on William Faulkner's Requiem for a Nun (Royal Court). Let us now imagine that there steps from the wings the Stage Manager of Thornton Wilder's Our Town. Pulling on a corncob pipe, he speaks...
...characters. The old General, who tries to overcome the boredom of his marriage by reliving the glories of his military days, insists all the while that he has the heart of a young man. He has waited seventeen years to consummate his "affair" with a girl whom he had fallen in love with at a military ball. The young lady continues to wait faithfully for him, remaining a scatterbrained young virgin until she finally seduces and falls in love with the General's secretary, a young man of equally scatterbrained innocence...
...younger members of the ruling junta headed by fanatical Colonel Alpaslan Turkes. These young zealots talked of setting up a thought-control office and remaking the country along authoritarian lines. They were also responsible for bringing charges of adultery and other smear-type cases against Menderes and the other fallen Democratic leaders on the ground that the Turkish peasants understood immorality but would never understand what a crime against the constitution was. When they tried to push through a draft law last November to put off elections for three years, Gursel rounded up all 14 and packed them...
...have just moved to Texas recently and have fallen in love with a Texas man. The sad thing is that this tall, handsome Texan is already married. My mother tried to warn me that all men from Texas must be watched closely. Do you agree? I'm from Chicago." Answer: "Agreed all men from Texas must be watched. Men from Chicago also...