Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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France, which had fallen apart with such appalling rapidity, now seemed to coalesce with the same amazing speed. Partly, it was the result of timing. By good luck or design, De Gaulle had chosen the proper moment to move: the striking workers were running out of money (the French unions have no strike funds), and the nation as a whole was tired of the inconveniences of living in an immobilized country. Partly, too, it was the response of a nation to a heroic leader. The turnabout illumined the dilemma of the majority in an age of instant communication, when extremists...
While chaos erupted and aides rushed to the fallen candidate, two Kennedy associates, 1960 decathlon champion Rafer Johnson and Los Angeles Rams lineman Roosevelt Grier grabbed the gunman and disarmed...
Thompson reasons this way: Prime Minister Churchill had presided over a long string of military disasters. By August 1942, Singapore had fallen, Crete was gone, and the British were being hit hard everywhere. The nation desperately needed a great victory and a greater hero. With the sure hand of a master propagandist, says Thompson, Churchill removed the able but colorless General Claude Auchinleck as commander of the Eighth Army in North Africa and put the theatrical Monty in his place. Churchill's press officers set out to obliterate the fact that the Eighth Army had already won one battle...
...people had fallen asleep. Yep, that was good meditation...
...Marine lance corporal, he traded his rifle for a machine gun and rushed forward to help buddies in trouble near the Demilitarized Zone. Pittman singlehanded faced an assault by more than 30 North Vietnamese. His ammunition gone, he grabbed a Communist weapon, then a pistol from a fallen Marine, driving the attackers back with his last grenade...