Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Acting President Jatti. The oaths of office and official secrecy were read in Hindi, and in keeping with Desai's wish for austerity, there were no garlands. The new Prime Minister told reporters that he wanted to avoid being "vindictive or vengeful" toward Mrs. Gandhi or her fallen comrades. He announced that she was free to live in her government residence "as long as she wished" (which was only fair, since she had never taken away his official home even during the months he was in prison). In another extraordinary gesture by the victors, J.P. Narayan-despite his poor...
...week's end the insurgents were reported to be in control of the town of Mutshatsha, a staging area for Mobutu's forces some 70 miles from Zaïre's rich copper belt. Officials denied it, but speculation mounted that the town had indeed fallen, cabled TIME Correspondent Erik Amfitheatrof when the government suddenly cancelled a flight there for journalists...
...Richard Nixon's first Administration, Schlesinger was named assistant director of the Bureau of the Budget, where he promptly began to bounce what he considered unjustified expenditures by the Pentagon. In 1971 Schlesinger moved on to become chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, which had fallen under the influence of the utility industry. In his first meeting with utilities executives, he told shocked industry leaders: "Gentlemen, I am not here to protect your triple-A bond ratings...
...rather begin serving his sentence now than perform with his team in the N.B.A. playoffs. His main gripe against the Pistons: for a player of his quality-and on a good night he can be incandescent-he does not play enough. If Coach Herb Brown thinks his play has fallen off, it is, he says, because jail looms. "I've got to serve time. It's affecting my game mentally and physically. It's on my mind. It's a heavy weight, a burden." But, reminded that by the terms of his contract he must play...
...best students, Warren MacKenzie, for almost 25 years head of the ceramics department at the University of Minnesota, who wrote to him about the hundreds of young potters working within a 100-mile radius of the campus. "I said to myself, 'My goodness, the seed has fallen on good earth in my own lifetime-not me alone, but all of us together wanting good things...