Word: fell
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...which a million U. S. taxpayers have feared was inevitable among WPA's hordes of shovel men: while leaning at a comfortable incline with his legs crossed and both hands grasping the shovel's handle to make a pillow for his chin, Ellis Colvin lost his balance, fell heavily, fractured his wrist. Shovel Man Colvin promptly applied for Government compensation...
...defeated Australia in one fell swoop in the challenge round for the Davis Cup, great silver symbol of international lawn tennis supremacy. Last week, on the same courts of the Germantown Cricket Club, a 1938 crop of U. S. and Australian Davis Cuppers met again in the challenge (final) round...
...Paul, Minn., John Johnson, 8, famed in his family for attracting calamity, was playing in a pit when a sand slide began. Trying to scramble out. he tripped, fell, accidentally forced his head into an empty 2-lb. coffee tin. Two tons of sand rolled over him. When rescuers du? him out eight minutes later, muzzled John Johnson was conscious, unhurt...
...left hand have sinned," she said. She took a pair of scissors, went to the woodshed, stabbed at her right eyeball till she gouged it out. She took a heavy ax, put her left hand on a concrete pipe, chopped at it viciously. At the third blow it fell to the ground. Ola Harwell walked back to the house, got into...
...lifted the tip of the umbrella form the sidewalk, mumbled a word and fell in with the other's rapid stride...