Word: fell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Shortly after 1 a.m., a churning mass of water 30 ft. high thundered down a Georgia valley toward the eleven houses, 25 trailer homes and various other buildings of Toccoa Falls Bible College. As the torrent surged through the campus last week, power lines fell and exploded in sparks, trailers were ripped from their moorings, automobiles floated away like fishermen's bobbers. In the basement of Forrest Hall, a 140-bed dormitory, 22-year-old Senior Bobby Carter had finished his nightly devotion, reading from II Corinthians, and was just falling asleep when his windowsill fan hurtled across...
...heavily armed plainclothesmen followed 100 yds. behind. Finally one policeman approached them and said: "I want to make a call too." One of the terrorists replied, "Shut up. A moment, please"-and then opened fire with a pistol. The police countered with a barrage of shots until the terrorists fell to the pavement badly wounded. Still the Germans continued to shoot back for some time and one even managed to toss a hand grenade before they could be subdued...
Last year, while out of school, Downey says she did not swim that often, and fell out of shape after...
Chicago Symphony Conductor Sir Georg Solti slipped as he stepped out of an elevator, and his assistant fell into a heroine's role. With Solti bedridden after straining a ligament in his back, Symphony Chorus Director Margaret Hillis, 56, was tapped as a last-minute stand-in to conduct a Manhattan performance of Mahler's difficult Eighth Symphony. Hillis spent an hour with the ailing maestro going over the score, listened to a radio tape of an earlier performance, and with just two days' preparation stepped up to the conductor's podium in Carnegie Hall...
Originally, Makavejev was offered the chance to make a feature film with a class at Harvard. Then the money for the project fell though. Now he says he is trying to construct a work situation in class similar to the atmosphere of his film crews, and planning on a small group film. Also, he is having his 15-member class make one-minute individual films. Harvard has no established method of teaching film-making, so Makavejev can use this freedom to break new ground with this technique. He says he is very interested in the group dynamics of the class...