Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Fallen to the earth, so Adam's evil seed...
...minimum was first set at 25c an hour in 1938. Inflation has taken a heavy toll: since it was last raised from $3.35 in 1991, its value has fallen...
...asleep in the two-story wooden house in Nagata that she shared with her mother Yoshie and father Shinichi, both 81, when the quake hit. Emiko and her father were unhurt, but a heavy wardrobe had fallen on Yoshie, pinning the frail old woman to the floor. As fire began roaring through the neighborhood, father and daughter struggled frantically to free her, without success. ``I'm going to stay here,'' her father said, but Emiko pleaded, ``You can't, father. You must live, for mother's sake!'' Emiko pulled him out of the house seconds before it was engulfed...
...Israelis were between the ages of 18 and 24. And all except one were soldiers, mainly members of the vanguard paratroopers unit. That may have made the attack seem like a legitimate act of guerrilla warfare to Palestinians. But the act of terror was especially shocking to Israelis: these fallen were the very men and women who were supposed to safeguard the rest of the nation from such assaults...
...influenced by One Stab (Gordon Tootoosis), the Native American who narrates the tale in movie Indianspeak--stilted language with many references to nature (``It was in the moon of the red grass,'' he says solemnly when he wants to date something). Tristan takes to cutting out the hearts of fallen prey to free their spirit and develops a lifelong, mutually unhealthy relationship with a grizzly bear. He never fully escapes the call of the primitive, but at a certain point he does begin carrying on like his Wagnerian namesake, giving himself over to romantic brooding, hopeless love, careless violence...