Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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When Dean Archie Epps and Martin Anochie '64 began AAAAS in 1964, it was very much an African and Afro-American organization. But since Aggrey Awori '65 graduated and left, African participation has fallen off to the extent of becoming only tokenism. The Africans now have very little contact with it, and it is very much an American thing. Properly, the organization's title should now change to the Harvard-Radcliffe Association for Afro-American students...
...trouble with that definition and the reason why the word has fallen into even deeper disrepute was noted as far back as 1905. Handing down the opinion in the case of Chicago Board of Trade v. Christie Grain, in which the court ruled that commodities trading and the Board of Trade served a legitimate purpose, Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes sagely commented that when competent men engage in speculation, it is "the self-adjustment of society to the probable." But he added that its pervasive peril surfaces when "the success of the strong induces imitation by the weak, and incompetent persons...
...seek to make a whole series of cuts in roads and rail lines in a steady round of attacks, thus trapping trains and truck convoys between the cuts and making them easy targets. Pilots have noticed in recent weeks that fire from antiaircraft batteries and SAM missile sites has fallen off considerably in some areas; they believe that the reason may be that it is getting increasingly harder to supply the sites with ammunition...
Another was that the conference's willingness to come to the Congo gave a boost to its genial host, President Joseph Désiré Mobutu, whose prestige has lately fallen both at home and abroad...
...being arrested. Certainly, Nasser has continued to arrest hundreds of army officers and civilians, creating deep and dangerous resentments that have yet to be cashed in. The army is still riddled with officers and men loyal to Amer, and it is furious over the disarray and disgrace that has fallen on it since the war. Some officers no longer wear their uniforms on the street...