Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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What is needed at this tragic juncture is not short-sighted sectarianism, but rather the unity and moral courage to redress injustice. It is tragic that even the Arab students at Harvard have fallen victim to compromising their sense of justice. It is time for all Arabs to recliam their sense of dignity, to uphld their common morality, by acting together to oppose aggression and liberate Kuwait...
...days the police went on the theory that Marina had fallen over backwards after having her purse snatched and cracked her skull. Accidental, they said. We wondered...
...dilemma born of geography and the hard knocks of history. Jaruzelski was 16 when Nazi Germany attacked Poland in 1939, and he recalls vividly how, on a clear September day 51 years ago, he and his family crossed into Lithuania as refugees. "I thought then that the heavens had fallen in on me," Jaruzelski recalls. "We were convinced that we would return home soon, that an English-French offensive would enable the Polish army to go on fighting against the Germans. It was not to happen...
Samuel Marx, who was story editor at MGM at the time, thought otherwise. Bern had told him that he once lived in New York City with an actress named Dorothy Millette. She had mysteriously fallen into a coma, and Bern had placed her in an institution. Ten years later, she had just as mysteriously recovered and come to California to resume their common-law marriage...
...from all four teams attacked the relatively flat first mile. The pace slackened, however, as the race entered the woods for two miles. A lead pack of eight runners, includingHarvard's Spencer Punter and Chris Woodward ledthrough the first three miles. When the runnersemerged from the trees, Woodward had fallen offthe pace, and no other Harvard runner was able torecover from the fast start...