Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kosciuszko, the French, German and Polish officers who fought with the American colonies during the Revolutionary War. Secretary of State George Shultz joined the offensive at a congressional hearing last week. He declared that the U.S. had a "moral duty" to rescue the people of Nicaragua, who had fallen "behind the Iron Curtain." That statement seemed a bit hyperbolic. It is not established that the Sandinistas take their orders from the Kremlin the way the East bloc countries do. But it is clear that they are mightily beholden to the Soviets for a steady stream of aid and arms...
...motor-nerve cells, which control various muscles. In some cases, when muscles in the chest become too weak to function properly, polio victims need mechanical assistance simply to breathe. Though many of the polio victims who survive are left partly paralyzed, they often make dramatic progress. Muscles that had fallen slack begin to work again when healthy nerve cells sprout new connecting fibers and take over the work of cells ravaged by polio...
While most American universities are suffering from a dearth of funds, federal support for university research over the past decade has fallen especially short of the demand. Even though Harvard is in no sense suffering from a lack of money, it still has trouble finding enough to keep its research programs running smoothly...
...That is exactly what is happening in women's religious communities now, says Pat Reif of Immaculate Heart College Center in Los Angeles: "Women are voting with their feet. It's a sharing of power we're after." The statistics, however, are ambiguous. The number of sisters has fallen from 180,000 to 120,000 since 1966, but the drop leveled off in 1978, and the total has even risen slightly since then...
Then consider that in the last two weeks Duke has fallen from number one to number...