Word: fell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Stevens sped 330 miles north of San Francisco for a look and immediately fell in love with the region, its mist-shrouded forests and trout-filled streams. This would be an ideal spot to raise families, Stevens decided, and to care for the elderly poor, who "live worse than hogs many places." The price for Bridgeville was $450,000, with $150,000 down. Drawls Stevens: "It could have been $1,000. We didn't have the money...
...those fears have faded. As the weather in much of the nation turned milder in February, then downright summery in March and April, demand for natural gas fell. The Emergency Natural Gas Act passed by Congress last February helped too. It enabled gas-consuming states to buy-at high unregulated prices-supplies that had been held in such producing states as Texas and Louisiana. Supplies in storage have now been rebuilt to the point that factories burning natural gas can count on getting enough to keep them running through the summer and fall. Since supplies are being replenished faster than...
...well as many of his colleagues from the broad-based Institute of Pacific Relations, against allegations that they had been part of a Stalinist conspiracy that had "lost" China from "the free world." Although Fairbank himself was eventually cleared by the committee, his wife says that his "public participation fell away drastically": Fairbank was not again asked to write for publications like the New York Times Book Review for more than a decade...
Amos, who was the first black talent agent to be hired by William Morris, fell upon hard times in Los Angeles and rose again on his Aunt Delia's recipe for guess-what. Thanks to salivating promotion, he is baking six tons of his Famous Amos cookies each week at a factory in Nutley, N.J., and his original shop on Sunset Boulevard; the chewy entremets are sold in bon ton stores from Bloomingdale's to Neiman-Marcus, J.L. Hudson's to Robinson...
...comeback by the Philadelphia '76ers fell two points short in the closing seconds of their game at Portland yesterday, as the Trailblazers hustled their way to a 109-107 victory and their first NBA championship in the sixth game of the NBA playoff finals...