Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...delighted to read TIME'S Essay on the family physician [May 13]. For years the American Academy of General Practice has been telling this story to medical educators, but our words have fallen on deaf ears. We do not advocate the family doctor of 50 years ago, but a bright, modern family physician well trained in comprehensive medicine, and schooled in those attributes so well described in your Essay. Though it is true that most modern medical knowledge is best applied in the hospital and office, there are many instances when the house call is most useful, convenient...
...decades of war, the Vietnamese have learned resilience. No sooner had the guns fallen silent in Danang than the rubble in the streets was removed. Shutters and boards that had been hastily nailed to windows were removed. Shops that had been closed for eight days opened up; police replaced soldiers at busy intersections. Miraculously, people reappeared: riding bicycles and peddling cycles, passing the time of day at sidewalk kiosks, shopping, visiting-a city alive again and glad...
Mass Graves. But they were no match for the machine guns and artillery of Obote's army. After two days of fighting there was no palace left to defend. Great columns of yellow smoke rose over the rubble of Mengo Hill and the hillside was littered with fallen Bu ganda warriors. Cordons of troops prevented Red Cross workers from reaching most of the dead and wounded, but volunteers managed to carry more than 200 bodies to the central police morgue: the rest were hauled away at night in army trucks and dumped into mass graves, uncounted...
...drum rolls and a guitar plunks, a voice intones: "Old Glory has never fallen so close to the earth . . . we stare at our shoelaces when they play the national anthem . . . patriotism has been condemned . . . new-car, prettier-girl, bigger-house sort of pride in country-somewhere along the way we've lost it . . ." While the guitar switches to something sinister and Oriental, the voice continues: "Our enemies . . . they've been putting steel wedges in the cracks in our wall of solidarity. The new idea is don't attack America, wear it down gradually . . . and did you know...
Carpentier's point of view was understandable-as far as Brussels is concerned. But fact is that values on most European bourses have fallen because of internal economic problems, moving independently and ahead of Wall Street...