Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...security that Israel seeks possible [Sept. 6]? Terrorism has not ended just because the P.L.O. has been evacuated from West Beirut. There are now new borders for the P.L.O. to cross. The guns have fallen silent for today. Tomorrow they can be picked up again...
...fallen in love with Princess Grace first at the age of 12, when I saw her in a re-run of High Noon. Since then I had watched her movies religiously. Now I was here, in her fairy tale land, and I felt determined to find...
...American pro-Israeli groups, initially declared that he saw "a lot of value" in them. But after the Arab League at its summit meeting in Fez, Morocco, continued to insist on an independent Palestinian state, the A.I.P.A.C. issued a formal statement charging that Reagan's plan had fallen victim to "the classic pattern of Arab duplicity and American naiveté." The A.I.P.A.C. has nevertheless asserted that "there were positive points in the President's initiative...
...Sancho set out for Madrid, a city that neither has seen for many years. Like Spain itself since the death of the Generalissimo, these innocents hurtle into the 20th century with ingenuous vigor. Feasting on suckling pig in Madrid's toniest restaurant or visiting the Valley of the Fallen, Spain's grandiose monument to its Civil War dead, the compañeros loudly dispute the merits of their beliefs: the Gulag vs. the Inquisition; Stalin vs. Judas; Brezhnev vs. Franco. The priest veers toward an ecumenical humanism; the Marxist sighs for a materialistic Utopia. They agree only about...
...number of union members has fallen from 22.8 million in 1978 to 22.4 million in 1980, the last year for which statistics are available. What is more dramatic, their percentage in the work force has fallen almost continuously for more than a decade, from 25.2% in 1968 to 20.9% in 1980. Since 1975, unions have lost more elections to represent new companies than they have...