Word: fells
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Last week for Herbert Hoover a cycle of history came full circle. Bombs fell on Helsinki and Bolshevism again marched West...
Among the wobbling governments of post-War Europe, when revolution or relief were the alternatives, he had packed a lifetime of experience: cabling pleas for food, studying revolution in Hungary as the Bela Kun* Government rose and fell racing around a Europe where panics and crises, revolution and breakdown flared in the first days of peace. Through ten of those 20 years he had been Herbert Hoover, Secretary of Commerce organizer of Mississippi flood relief. His reputation as a humanitarian and an administrator was unequalled. Through the next ten years that reputation had been overlaid by another: he had been...
...days later the honest Marshal had a "toothache"; 13 days later he died. General Kawamoto also fell mysteriously ill, but he was up & around in plenty of time to be at Marshal Wu's bedside when death came to the only honest warlord in China...
When she was halfway across the pavement, the waitress slipped and fell on the ice. A 1938 black Ford sedan, coming up at 30 miles an hour, began skidding towards her but she remained frozen with terror directly in front of its path...
...first eight were spent in the Adult Education Department, and the past four in executive offices, Invited by President Conant to perform research on the role of radio in education, and financed by a private American organization not connected with Harvard or with the British Government, he "nearly fell over backwards" in eagerness to accept the offer...