Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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When Harvard announced its $500 increase in tuition, room and board fees for this year, students took little consolation in the facts that the rate of increase has fallen since 1975 or that this is the first time in recent years that Harvard has not been more expensive than Yale. The $7500 price tag on a Harvard education this year means that the Class of '82 will have to spend at least $30,000 to stay here four years--more if fees go up again--which they undoubtedly will...
However, things did not quite turn out all right: the Athletic Department last fall halted the drive because of fund raising problems and possible competition with other Harvard capital drives. The drive had fallen $17 million short of the $30-million goal, forcing Athletic Department officials to make major revisions in the plans for the athletic complex...
...York has regained a kind of vivacious equilibrium, how long can it last? The city is painfully dependent on the good fortunes of the national economy. New York City, the strictly physical plant, is in a state of appalling neglect. The West Side Highway has literally fallen apart. Despite some renovations, the city's housing stock is in disastrous condition, especially in slums...
...asked those around him to "pray for me." His last words were to the effect that the death of a Pope is like that of others, "but it can teach men something." At 9:40 p.m. he died, so peacefully that his aides at first thought he had only fallen asleep...
...evenings after supper I hate him least, when the rheum in his blind eyes looks less like weakness, an impassive twilight severity in his backbone. He sits alone as I am alone, feeling the heat of the sand warm the sun-fallen...