Word: fells
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...fell to a Negro housewife. Last week in a federal courtroom, in a small firm voice, she uttered the sentence which cut off the head of the Communist Party...
...morning sun fell on Manhattan's Foley Square, but the room in the skyscraper courthouse was cast in majestic gloom. The babbling of the spectators in the pewlike benches had stopped. Wary-eyed deputy marshals, their numbers reinforced, had ranged themselves around the crowded room, against its marble walls. Eleven bosses of the Communist Party, on trial for conspiring to teach and advocate the violent overthrow of the U.S. Government, now at the hour of reckoning, sat inside the rail behind their five lawyers. U.S. Attorney John F. X. McGohey, their unsmiling antagonist, rested his grey head...
...sitting in the living room at home," said Anna Thompson, "when a statue of the Virgin Mary suddenly swayed and fell. Nothing but one arm was broken. I told my husband, "That's a sign. Something wonderful is going to happen about our boy' . . . I'm sure my prayers have been answered...
Neither team was able to produce a scoring threat. Dartmouth fell on Farren Wylie's fumble on the Crimson 17 as the second quarter opened, but Harvard recovered on the very next play. Later in the same period, the Indians started a drive from their own 31 which petered out on the Harvard 8. The losers' had a 60-yard touchdown run in the third period nullified for offside...
Blackjack Patrol. Fields squirmed at the thought that there might be comedians as he. He even accused Baby LeRoy of trying to steal scenes from him. Once, to get even, he spiked the infant's orange juice with gin, and when it thereupon fell asleep, shouted with glee: "The kid's no trouper. Send him home...