Word: fallen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Stern Tactics. All Vietnamese recognize that unbending President Ngo Dinh Diem is the father of his country, acknowledge that without him the whole nation would have fallen to the Communist Viet Minh. With more than $1 billion in U.S. aid to help, he has policed the 17th parallel border with Communist North Viet Nam, resettled nearly a million refugees from the north, started ambitious road, railway and land-reform projects...
...recital tour. At the piano behind her was one of the most gifted and certainly the most eloquent of present-day accompanists, England's Gerald Moore, who says: "The accompanist who 'follows' but does not anticipate is a dull, pedestrian sort of fellow, without electricity, a fallen arch in the march of time...
...year-old daughter. Because of a childhood head injury, Clara has the mentality of a child of ten. The love between mother and daughter is surely suggested, not spelled out, in moments of flashing sweetness. What bothers Mrs. Johnson is that her simple-minded but beautiful child has fallen in love with a young Florentine who runs a shop and whose family would certainly seem like comic-opera Italians to her all-American husband...
...million that will be spent on economic aid by the International Cooperation Administration, more than half will be spent abroad. To make the balance of payments even more lopsided, foreign investments in the U.S., which usually run at a rate of about $500 million a year, have fallen to almost zero. What can the U.S. do, without angering or hurting its allies and friends, to improve its unfavorable balance of payments...
...shots of its subject, the book is significant only because it treats Pound seriously and heralds the work that will treat him definitively. It is a reminder that he cannot be written off and must, more and more, be written about. Pound's reputation, largely self-besmirched, has fallen so low that it has indeed no place...