Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Third World resistance movement has been murdered in the United States. For the first time in living memory, assassins have struck in Washington, D.C., the nation's capital. And also for the first time, a young American, a member of the next generation of American leaders, has fallen with a major Third World figure on American soil...
...well-kept marble statues of Confederate soldiers in almost every town square in the South testify to the love of militant lost causes-a love that has sometimes been misplaced. Long after the Viet Nam War had fallen out of favor with Northern conservatives, it still received support from the South. In the final days of Watergate, when the rest of the nation had been convinced of Nixon's guilt, the President still garnered sympathy and exhortations from Southerners who urged him to "Hang in there...
...Virginia Congressman M. Caldwell Butler, a moderate Republican who was one of several Southern stars on the House Judiciary Committee that voted for impeachment of President Nixon, ascribes to the G.O.P. of his own state a flaw that applies elsewhere as well. Says he: "Republicans in Virginia have fallen heir to the extremist conservative elements of the Democratic Party...
...area's output of goods and services; now it is down to 2.8%. Unable to compete with large farms, many small growers have been driven off the land. Between 1940 and 1970, the number of farms in the region was halved, to 1.1 million. Abandoned farmhouses-porches fallen in, chimneys hidden by vines, bushes protruding from windows-are a not uncommon sight...
...released statements to be read aloud at a demonstration against a University professor, Dr. Bernard D. Davis '36, Lehman Professor of Bacterial Physiology. First in a letter to a prestigious medical journal and later in comments to the press, Davis has asserted that academic standards in medical schools have fallen in recent years because of the rise in the number of minority students admitted with "substandard academic qualifications." Whether through Davis's naivete or reporters' searching for the simplified or sensational (The Crimson ran this headline across the top of the front page: "Professor Assails Blacks' Performance"), Davis's message...