Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Bible also reports that bread fell from heaven for our ancestors in the desert...
...last week to watch and hear the dances he has constructed during his absence. This time his new offering most favored was a temple dance called Tandrava Nrittya. Shankar became the God Shiva, whirling and gesturing, creating the universe only to destroy it. When his wife died, Shiva fell into grief and a state of meditation. Reincarnated as Parvati, she tried to wake him. When the Elephant-Demon, Gajasura, menaced her, Shiva, awake at last, came to Parvati's defense. In the great fight that followed, the god and the demon threw winds and lightning at each other...
...friends had kissed her, he simply smiled. Elinor says she had plenty of opportunity to make him laugh on the wrong side of his face. Divorce in those days was social suicide, but discreet affairs were the rule. Elinor, though tempted, does not admit that she ever fell. Instead she took to writing, turned many a might-have-been into the wishfulfillment of words. "I drew, out of my vivid imagination, material to satisfy my own unfulfilled longing for romantic love." Her first novel, The Visits of Elizabeth, came out as a newspaper serial, made such a hit that...
...partners, Hennedyck, a manufacturer who shut down his mill rather than let the Germans get his textiles, were sent to a German prison. Alain Laubigier refused to register with the authorities, led the life of a hunted criminal till he ended up in a labor battalion. Judith Lacombe fell in love with the German soldier who raped her, turned sullen prostitute when he went away...
Hopes of skiing in this vicinity rose and fell as what appeared to be a substantial snow storm turned into rain and the two inches that had fallen melted rapidly. Warm weather spread north and rain prevailed as far as Plymouth. Jackson and the nearby Eastern Slope region of the White Mountains was covered by a five inch blanket of wet snow while Franconia and Pinkham Notches received a light fall of between two and three inches of powder snow...