Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...dancing and hugging each other and rolling in the dirt. The blight was gone. But when the elation had passed, one of us--I think it was an accountant's son from Cleveland--looked at each of the others soberly and said, "What are we celebrating? The country has fallen apart...
That evening over our pasta we watched Nixon's resignation speech on the news. There was no pity for this broken leader; he had fallen before we were born. The Italians at the table watched our reactions. We showed no shame for Nixon--this man was as politically remote from us as the distance between Tarquinia and Washington--but on the other hand we drew no elation from watching the president take responsibility for screwing the democratic system, but point the blame elsewhere...
...acquaintance Richard provides the cynic's stereotype of an inevitably cold and ambitious road to success, it is Nixon himself who becomes a target for the blame. Mee doesn't claim that Nixon personally brought down the republic, of course, noting that it had fallen long before, but Nixon becomes a focus of his disappointment in a string of broken presidential promises that stretch back at least through Johnson's administration...
...Hollywood will never recapture the old glory. "I've seen stabbings, shootings, anything you want to see," says Jack Hines Jr., cashier and host at Miceli's restaurant, where business has fallen more than 50% in the past five years. "Hollywood is the sinkhole of Los Angeles...
Working like a well-functioning percolator, the market forces that drove raw coffee prices to record highs in April are now forcing prices down, down, down. In the past few months, Colombian green coffee has fallen from $3.34 per Ib. to $1.92, 43% below its April peak. Similar drops have taken place for other varieties of coffee...