Word: fell
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...distant and aloof Kansas Republican Governor Robert Bennett, never really popular in his state, fell victim to the widespread voter unrest. He was upset by Democrat John Carlin, 38, speaker of the state's house of representatives. Wisconsin's image as one of the more liberal states was transformed by Republican Lee Sherman Dreyfus, 52, chancellor of the University of Wisconsin at Stevens Point, who was seeking office for the first time. He unseated Acting Governor Martin Schreiber, 39, a career politician. Yet Dreyfus, who describes himself as a maverick in a populist mold, saw no ideological portent...
...D.F.L. might have survived its own overambition. Though Anderson made little impact in the Senate, Humphrey wisely decided not to seek a full Senate term this year, and the colorful Perpich began emerging as an able Governor. But without Hubert's healing hand the party fell into a fatal primary fight. Robert Short, a millionaire businessman-sportsman (truck-firm operator, former owner of the Minneapolis-now Los Angeles-Lakers and the Washington Senators), challenged a Humphrey protégé, liberal Congressman Don Fraser, for the nomination to Humphrey's seat and won the primary in an upset...
...dividend cut shocked Wall Street traders, who apparently saw it as a harbinger of many more to come. Stock prices, which had registered their sharpest one-day run-up ever (35 points) during the initial euphoria over the dollar-rescue program, fell back heavily; last Tuesday the Dow Jones industrial average tumbled 14.81 points. At week's end it was moving in a narrow range just above 800, but nobody could be sure it would hold there. Some brokers fear that a combination of high interest rates and the threat (or fact) of recession could push the average down...
...some volcanic trauma in the center of her being that erupted with a violence, a hatred and a suddenness that plunged both of us into an instantaneous struggle for survival. She leaped off the counter and grabbed for my throat like a mad dog. I lost my footing and fell to the floor, hitting my head on the ice chest as I went down. The choking pain of her fingers around my throat met the thudding ache of the blow to the back of my head ... Her mouth was twisted with rage and her eyes?her eyes were the eyes...
Fred Cordova pounced on it, and QB Brown got Harvard out from dangerous territory with two short runs and an 18-yd. pass to tight end Paul Sablock. Following a punt, Yale again fumbled, and safety McLeod fell on it at the Yale...