Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hoarders and speculators, gold lately has had about as much luster as a rusty tin can. In the 19 months since gold purchases became legal for U.S. citizens, the price has fallen more than 40% from its peak of $198 an ounce. In three chaotic days of trading last week, gold fell $14 on the London market, reaching a 31-month low of $105.50 an ounce. Though the price recovered to $111 by week's end, that is still a dismal figure for goldbugs, who not long ago were forecasting prices of $300 or more...
...month ago, Philadelphia City Councilman Louis Johanson said that he would not vote for Carter under any circumstances. But he did-after his fallen favorite, Scoop Jackson, asked him to. By then the still-cynical Johanson had heard Brown address the delegation and cracked that "the difference between a babbling Baptist and a jumping Jesuit isn't that much." One reluctant Manhattan delegate, Harold Jacob, criticized Carter for not making clear where he stands on Israel and other issues (like emigration from the Soviet Union) of concern to Jews, but he softened after the nomination of Fritz Mondale...
...important respect, the U.S. Navy has fallen badly behind the Soviets. According to the U.S. Navy's own statistics, the Red Navy now has 563 combat vessels, v. the U.S. Navy's 285. Seeking to narrow the gap, the U.S. Navy has undertaken an ambitious building program that by the mid-1980s could bring the fleet up to 600 submarines and surface warships...
...sort of thing that scares moviemakers with a big bud get at stake. All too quickly they are cranking up a drearily conventionalized fiction in which Charlton Heston clenches and unclenches his jaw muscles as he tries to sort out his relationship with his son, who has inconveniently fallen in love with a Japanese-American girl the authorities erroneously believe...
...prevent Konig's spirits from soaring unexpectedly, Lieberman saddles him with other problems: two incipient scandals in his own department and a particularly troublesome batch of mismatched body parts dredged up from the East River. As if all this were not enough, Konig's daughter has fallen into the hands of some hoodlum revolutionaries. They make Konig listen in on the phone while they torture...