Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...express train on the Utrecht-Groningen line and-to the particular fury and fear of the nation-105 children and five primary school teachers from the village of Bovensmilde. For four emotion-filled days, the children were held inside their school. Then, because most of them seemed to have fallen victim to a stomach virus, they were unexpectedly released. But the terrorists still held the school, the train and the adult hostages, and the slow-burning anger of the Dutch mounted ominously...
...Martin, you know, that guy we just met at brunch. God what a drip. He wants to go for coffee. What am I going to do?" Louise always had this way of sounding like she was annoyed that these guys had fallen for her. Adrian's advice to her was something along the line of telling them...
...refiner, suffered the largest 1976 sales decline of any company on the FORTUNE 500 list; its revenues fell almost 34%, to $1.1 billion. At that, refiners are lucky; they have continued to make a profit ($43 million for Amstar last year) because their cost of buying raw sugar has fallen as fast as the price at which they sell the refined product. Growers in the U.S. and abroad are losing money. Moans Cane Grower J.R. Roane: "Louisiana will be out of business in another two years at this price level." The price collapse has badly hurt the Cuban economy; that...
...novel, Adam Kennedy's The Domino Principle was a thriller of more than usual style, distinguished by a fairly serious attempt to penetrate the mind of the sort of loser who, if properly manipulated, can be turned into a political assassin. Now the book has fallen into the heavy hands of Director Stanley Kramer, and, despite Kennedy's presence at the screenwriter's keyboard, everything that made the book good, popular fiction has somehow been lost...
Oscar Wilde sometimes complained of historians who had fallen into "careless habits of accuracy." He would have relished the work of the British recluse Edmund Backhouse, celebrated in his day (1873-1944) for his translations from the Chinese and his vast Sinological contributions to Oxford's Bodleian Library. The Backhouse oeuvre is filled with an amalgam of profound insight, scholarship and, it now appears, pornography; all it lacks is a single component: truth...