Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...wasn't he? When Michele Sindona, 59, Italy's notorious fallen angel of high finance, was first reported kidnaped from a Manhattan street two months ago, Italians as well as U.S. authorities were skeptical. Most believed that the native Sicilian had arranged his own disappearance. After all, he was about to stand trial in New York City on a 99-count indictment of financial finagling, and was wanted in Milan on charges of bank fraud totaling $225 million...
...than when in trouble on the battlefield. Unfortunately, May 2 was a day on which Le Duc Tho was confident he had the upper hand. Quang Tri had fallen the day before. Pleiku was in peril. An Loc was now surrounded. For all Le Duc Tho knew, a complete South Vietnamese collapse was imminent...
When the smoke settles, the miners must hustle down to the 5,900-ft. depth, work out under the cavern where the new rock has fallen, and begin hauling out stone, which is then hoisted onto ore carts for the long trip to the mine head. There it is pulverized, milled down as fine as flour, and the gold is chemically extracted as minute particles of dust...
...Burger King. Also, their prices are as robust (a "Tendersweet Clam Plate" goes for $4.75) as their food is plain. As one old saw puts it, "Howard Johnson's ice cream comes in 28 flavors and its food in one." In motor lodges the company has fallen behind the quality standards of such major rivals as Holiday Inns and Marriott. Though the company has had record sales and profits for four years running -1978's earnings were $33.6 million on revenues of $555 million-gasoline shortages have slowed the growth markedly this year...
After checking into Belfast City Hospital in 1976 for one of his few legitimate visits (he had fallen and fractured his right leg), Mcllroy made a few brief appearances at other hospitals and then disappeared for more than a year. The two investigators assumed that he had died. But he resurfaced at a Birmingham nursing home last June, then at hospitals in Ireland and Scotland, and was discharged from another one in London as recently as August. Diagnosis: Mcllroy is alive -and still ailing -in the British Isles...