Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Golden autumn sunlight dappled the. freshly whitened south portico of the White House, and a gardener steadily swept at the fallen leaves around the diplomatic entrance. At one minute before 2, the shrieking sirens of an official motorcade split the air, and quickly pomp and circumstance turned into slapstick comedy. The big black limousine pulled up smartly before the red-carpeted doorway. Out popped a beaming Ronald Reagan and his smiling wife...
...time, Charles dated Diana's older sister, Sarah; though she said later that the Prince was "a romantic who falls in love easily," he seems to have just as easily fallen out of it. Diana, on the other hand, is said to have had an adolescent crush on Charles that has now blossomed into serious mutual adulation. But with Charles off to India for a two-week official visit, and no announcement of an engagement yet in sight, Britain seemed to be in store for a long and piquant season of Charlie and Diana watching, the frothier the merrier...
...dead weight of the 1980 presidential campaign has fallen away, and Americans, no matter how they voted, seem to be walking with that little bounce in the spirit that comes when an ordeal is over, a decision finally made. The evening hour, for example, seems unaccountably more pleasant; the reason may be that political advertising has abruptly vanished from television-a sweet, almost subliminal improvement in the moral atmosphere. No more candidates hagiographically displayed, saints mixing radiantly with the adoring throng; no more of those sarcastic prosecutorial voice-overs about the other guy, the pitchman's tone...
After The Game, Crimson captain Chuck Durst limped slowly to the trainer's room, injured left leg bandaged heavily. The awkward silence in Dillon Field House said it all--there was nothing to say, Harvard had fallen to Yale, 14-0, to finish in a four-way tie for third-place in the Ivy League...
Proponents of the changes, by contrast, claim that the simpler text will attract people who have fallen away from the church, especially the young. Presenting a copy of the Alternative Service Book to Queen Elizabeth last week, Archbishop of York Stuart Blanch declared that the Book of Common Prayer was "imposed by law upon a largely unwilling church." The new liturgy, he stated, is a "people's book." Perhaps. But traditionalists cite a Gallup survey showing that a majority of English churchgoers favor the old rites over...