Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cold wave were westerly winds which whipped the Great Lakes. Toledo, squatting where the Maumee River empties into Lake Erie's western end, was seriously threatened by a water shortage when the wind blew the river water out into the lake in such volume that the river level fell nine and one half feet, within inches of the bottoms of Toledo's pump intakes...
Meanwhile, all Gibraltar had been aroused. Shells fell in the little village of Caleta, on the east side of the Rock, destroyed two houses, damaged a power plant, wounded four British subjects. General Sir Edmund Ironside, commander-in-chief of Gibraltar, sounded an alarm, called out the entire British garrison. The British destroyer Vanoc and a French destroyer, the Basque, went to investigate. Gibraltar's guns fired blank shells to warn the Rebel warships that they were firing on British territory...
Hitler-"What's most important is your first contact with the old man. . . . You begin by awaiting him at the end of your famous office in the Palazzo Venezia. You let him walk 100 meters on a floor more polished than ever. It would be best if he fell down and let his umbrella fall two or three times before reaching...
Present at the gala premiere were a quorum of Hollywood actresses, cinema celebrities like Darryl Zanuck, Jack Warner, Cecil B. DeMille, who had paid $1,000 each for "lifetime" cover charges, permission to sit in an "inner circle." Chunks of scenery fell down, the show was an hour late, the revolving stages failed to turn properly, microphones went dead, a disappearing platform jerked the prima donna out of sight during one of her songs, and a waiter dropped a trayful of dishes during a dance spectacle. Hollywood pronounced the opening a success...
During the cold winter of 1717, snow fell steadily for five days in New England, lay five or six feet deep in Boston for a long time. In March 1741, people sleighed from Stratford, Conn. to Long Island across the solidly frozen Sound. In 1779-80, according to Thomas Jefferson, "the Chesapeake Bay was frozen solid from its head to the mouth of the Potomac. At Annapolis the ice was five to seven inches in thickness, quite across...