Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Giving in, the government flashed a temporary red light to enforcement officers, ordering that the edict take effect only against a few disreputable houses that employed minors or peddled dope. It was small solace for the trade. Complained one prostitute last week: "Attendance has fallen off. Clients fear they may land in jail." A madam with initiative-and style-was busy sending out notes to erstwhile customers: "I have the pleasure of informing you that I expect you at my house on Tocornal Street after 6 p.m. Bring a friend...
...questionable cases, looks like a depraved caricature of Benjamin Franklin, while Wilfrid Lawson all but steals the show as a loyal family retainer so pickled in alcohol that-whatever the charge-he is ready to swear the butler did it. The vogue for sick screen comedy has obviously fallen into capable hands. Softened by the ruddy glow of the gaslight era, Wrong Box makes graveside humor...
...Commerce Committee protested that the proposed resolution "would set back the cause of collective bargaining 50 to 100 years." Labor Secretary Willard Wirtz agreed with Staggers that legislation weakens collective bargaining. "But," he said, without alluding to the Administration's sorry performance, "this time collective bargaining has fallen on its face...
...Ramon Magsaysay's intense four-year campaign of pacification and resettlement ended in the mid 1950s. But in the past few years, as government control has waned in Luzon, Huk influence has slowly reasserted itself. One mayor now claims that 80% of his home province of Pampanga has fallen under Communist control, and that nearly half of the area's 22 mayors are either Communists or Communist sympathizers. If these figures are somewhat high, Marcos himself puts Huk strength at 250 hard-core terrorists, 250 to 500 part-time terrorists, and a "mass base" of perhaps...
These older, reckles lyrics excited me because their contagion was evident; ears attuned to them gained appetites for "poeticism" and a lot of earnest, though not always men leapt up to supply them. Paul Simon (Garfunkel's partner) gives us lines freshly fallen silent shroud of snow," important, he gives us his own self-image: "A poet with a one-man band." "I have my bo--oks/And my po--e--try to protect me, he says. Mick Jagger write a 7-stress line Off My Cloud" and resuscitates the blues poetry of Sam Cooke, Otis Red Dog Herskovitz. The Lovin...