Word: fallen
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Later that week, Ginny suggested that they donate some of George's undershirts and Argyle socks to the rescue workers. "What about when he comes home?" asked Hilary, who had said almost nothing to her mother since the towers had fallen. Ginny, who had nearly shut down from the shock, followed Hilary's lead: "Then obviously we'll buy him some more...
...topic she does not discuss with Hilary, was weighing on her. But there was a flip side to emerging from her fog: she actually had to think and feel. The summer had always been her favorite part of the year. It was when she and George had met and fallen in love. And during July and August, they inhabited what Ginny calls an "expandable house," the weekend destination for every last cousin or friend seeking refuge from the sweltering city. Hilary would expect the same this year. Could they possibly...
Taxing savings is less of a headline-grabbing issue than the money of fallen dictators or Holocaust victims, but for the E.U. it may be just as significant. The planned exchange of tax information would create the beginnings of a more unified pan-European fiscal system, and end the anomaly of tax havens within the E.U. Germany in the 1990s saw how damaging capital flight could be when it instituted a special withholding tax on savings to pay for reunification, sparking an exodus of billions of marks to neighboring Luxembourg. Tax evasion is not a criminal offense in Switzerland...
...into Huang Yuefeng as he pulled the socks onto a friend's corpse, which he was preparing to bury. The young peasant didn't know at the time that the bugs had dropped from a Japanese airplane, or that his village in central China's Hunan province had fallen victim to World War II's most devastating germ warfare attack. He knew only that first the rats died, then the people died?often covered with purple splotches and lying in their own vomit. Locals called it the "rat plague." In fact it was the bubonic plague?the Black Death that...
...These verdicts are a striking departure for a country led by conservatives who would rather deny, revise or bury the past. Tokyo hard-liners still capture headlines by declaring, as former defense chief Hosei Norota did last year, that Japan invaded most of Asia only because it "had fallen prey to a scheme of the United States." Publishers of middle school textbooks, who in the past few years finally began calling the 1937 murder of up to 300,000 civilians in Nanjing a "massacre," recently succumbed to right-wing pressure and changed most editions back to calling the slaughter...