Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...present rate of earning and spending, Alaska will, by 1966, have fallen $30 million into debt on its operating programs alone...
...signed a ten-year nonaggression pact. "We are determined." beamed Premier Chou Enlai, "to make the border between our countries one of peace and friendship." What had changed Peking's mind? In the past year Communist China's once great prestige in India, Burma and Indonesia has fallen, largely as a result of the ugly adventures in Tibet and Peking's quarrels with India. Since Nikita Khrushchev, still in his Camp David mood, is about to visit not only India and Indonesia but also Burma, Peking apparently felt in need of patching up at least one "friendship...
...students and trade-union deputations presented petitions of protest. Reason: within seven days, the price of rice had doubled and the cost of cooking fuel had shot up 61% as Indonesia's rupiah plunged unchecked. In less than two months the rupiah (officially 45 to the dollar) had fallen from 150 to a record low of 500. Adding twirls to the inflationary spiral were the 2,500,000 Overseas Chinese who have been banned since Jan. 1 from doing business in rural areas. Packing up for Hong Kong, Formosa or Red China, they have bought up watches, cameras...
...Lonely and desperate, Frances Spears asked Barker to stay with her. He agreed - but only on the condition that "after she talked to the authorities, she'd have to give me the beat." To the newsmen outside, Barker seemed to have fallen down on his job. He had, he said, taken no notes of his talks with Mrs. Spears, and furthermore, his tape recorder was empty. Weary and frustrated, the other reporters concluded that Eddie Barker had got himself so emotionally involved with the story that he had forgotten to get the news...
...name Affandi and admits to a single-minded devotion to art as human expression. Affandi once defined humanism as meaning "all that is right and good to every living creature. When I am making a painting, and suddenly I hear a child that is crying because its doll has fallen into the water, I have to stop painting and help the child first...