Word: fell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rose 77% over the same period last year, to $51.9 million. Other outstanding performances: Atlantic Richfield (up 41%, to $191.2 million), Getty (up 21%, to $75.8 million), Union of California (up 41%, to $75.2 million) and California Standard (up 34%, to $277 million). Despite the surging profits, oil stocks fell sharply last week, partly because the confidence of analysts and investors alike was shaken by a variety of assaults on so-called...
Like many towns that fell to the advancing forces of Generalissimo Francisco Franco during the Spanish Civil War, the mountain resort village of Cercedilla (current pop. 4,000), 35 miles north of Madrid, suffered its share of Nationalist vengeance. Some Republican sympathizers were imprisoned and a few were shot, while many more fled to exile. One of those never accounted for was Protasio Montalvo, the Socialist mayor of Cercedilla during part of the war. For years villagers wondered whether he had died fighting on some distant front or had been a victim of mass executions after the war or perhaps...
...evening fell on Thursday, the ghettos gradually returned to normal. On some streets there was almost a sense of camaraderie between the cops and the black and Hispanic youths. Some of the officers in Bedford-Stuyvesant swung their long riot sticks like golf clubs, sending tin cans and other debris flying out of the gutter. "Hey, man," called out a black youngster with a chuckle, "your grip is all wrong." In the South Bronx, a brightly lit Ferris wheel slowly revolved in the night sky, its two-passenger chairs filled. Sporting shiny new Adidas jogging shoes, a young teenage...
...conveyed in life is more ironic than his lyrics; Porter's last 27 years were filled with pain. A horse fell on him in 1937, badly breaking both legs. Instead of having them amputated, as physicians recommended, he tried to save them by operation after operation. The results were never fully satisfactory, and in 1958 he lost his right leg. Only toward the very end of his life, with Linda dead and his health beyond repair, did he seem to despair, giving in more and more to pills and alcohol. Death, in 1964, was probably welcomed...
...frontrunners were once again deadlocked when a charging Watson gamely carded birdies on the fifth, seventh, and eighth, respectively named Fin'me oot, Roon the Ben, and Goat Fell...