Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...What has moderation achieved? Is this the West's concept of a just peace? , Where is the comprehensive peace framework envisaged at Camp David and promised us? All the masks have fallen, and the talk about peace with Israel has become a kind of illusion...
...voice flared with anger, and he made a spitting gesture. He explained that traditionally the graves of fallen Soviet soldiers have been inscribed DIED FOR THE MOTHERLAND. But not for Afghanistan. "Do you know what they put on their tombstones? Four words: DIED FOR INTERNATIONAL DUTY! What is that? I do not know what 'international duty' is. But this is what they put on the graves." And he made the contemptuous spitting gesture again...
...week's end, the official Polish news agency announced that a tentative settlement with the shipyard workers had fallen through after a few hours. Workers in Gdansk, however, claimed to have ended their strike after winning a $50 pay raise; they said they would continue to occupy the shipyard through the weekend in solidarity with strikers elsewhere...
Never in modern history has a President fallen to such murky depths in the national affection. George Gallup, the dean of the opinion samplers, who has been measuring voter sentiment since 1936, found just 15 days ago that Carter had only 21% approval, eclipsing Richard Nixon's 24% and Harry Truman's 23%, the other lows. In the data that Pollster Louis Harris has assembled is even worse news. On no single issue surveyed does Carter have a majority of voters who stand up and say they like him. Question the American people now about the hostages in Iran...
...days, claiming that Jimmy Carter reneged on his vow in 1977 to rebuild the South Bronx. None of the new visitors to the area need fear what the President might have feared three years ago?that a building would fall on his head?because almost all the buildings have fallen in the interim, and are now nicely disguised as two lawns of gray-yellow dust on either side of Charlotte Street. The dust is thicker than the ash from Mount St. Helens. It fills the air. It smells of nothing organic but manure, yet even that smell is not precise...