Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...sheep" return home to clear their own names. The title refers to this false moral leader. Karsten Bernick, and his business cohorts, who pursue personal profits under the banner of working for the common good. They are supported by their equally hypocritical wives, members of an aid society for fallen women who are more dedicated to scandal gossip than to charity...
After lunch-I sat next to Hockmeyer-I watched the second game as an observer. Scott Smith, 25, a young marksman from Cambridge, N.Y., lay doggo behind a fallen tree and picked off five red marauders as they attacked his yellow goal. A very long period of woods noises and bug bites followed. Then, less than 15 min. before the game's 2-hr, limit expired, Smith slipped away into the brush. More woods noises; then with 30 sec. to go, Smith crashed into view with a captured red flag and sagged to the ground, chest heaving...
...sputtered on. The fighting stopped quite suddenly on Monday after the Israelis called for a ceasefire, the fifth in the month-old crisis. The reason, it turned out, was that P.L.O. artillery had struck an Israeli armored personnel carrier on a hillside, and the vehicle in turn had fallen on top of two Israeli tanks, thereby trapping 14 Israeli soldiers in the wreckage and pinning them down under heavy fire. The Israelis called the ceasefire, which lasted for only 24 hrs., in order to extricate their men. After the resumption of fighting, there were clashes off and on between...
...more leaflets or the real McCoy? Reporters trade guesses around the Commodore Hotel swimming pool, itself a point of danger in Beirut. The pool is deep but empty, and there is little room to walk around its sides. By the end of the week one man will have fallen in, severely injuring his head and breaking a leg, while another, in a bizarre decision to jump to his rescue, will have broken...
...profits and steep interest rates, Western companies have been forced to slash their spending for capital investment. In 1970, the U.S. and Western Europe devoted about 4% of their national income to buying new equipment and building factories that would add to industrial capacity. By 1982, that ratio had fallen to less than...