Word: fell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...questioned Matlick about eleven checks that cleared her bank account after she disappeared, including one for $3,000 that was made out to him. The checks were not signed in Mrs. Brach's normal handwriting. Matlick told police that her hand had been hurt when a trunk lid fell on it, and she could only scrawl. Oddest of all, Matlick failed for nearly two weeks to report that Mrs. Brach was missing. During that time, he says, he summoned her brother Charles Vorhees, a retired railroad worker, to the estate, where they burned two of Mrs. Brach...
...fall. In its original plan, the Common Program called for the nationalization of nine giant French companies as well as all banks. When Communist Party Chief Georges Marchais insisted that the takeover of the nine companies also include their 1,450 subsidiaries, the Socialists refused, and the leftist coalition fell apart. Marchais also demanded a system of workers' councils in public and private industry that would virtually guarantee control by Communist-dominated unions. The Socialists, somewhat more moderate in their approach, simply argue that limited nationalization will stimulate capital investment in French industry because the state will have...
...trouble soon came as the Palestinians were conducting doorway negotiations with a Cypriot intermediary. The Egyptian commando Jeep suddenly rolled across the tarmac, guns blazing. The cockpit was a storm of flying glass. Puffs of insulation fell like hail...
...knew that you'd make it," his wife told him cheerily on the phone. "Hurry on home." He did. As he removed his coat, something fell to the floor. It was a spent bullet...
...also urges the U.S. to float Treasury bonds abroad, selling them to banks, mutual funds and other investors in exchange for strong foreign money. The Treasury would guarantee to repay these loans in the same foreign currencies, so that the creditors would risk no loss even if the dollar fell still further...