Word: fells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...took the stage. He wore a dark blazer, his goatee was white as a light bulb, his hearing aid seemed to be made of sterling silver. The invited audience-a collector's treasure of florists, bellhops, desk clerks, Schrafft's waitresses, Western Union girls and airline hostesses fell politely silent. Frederick Alden ("Perky") Warren, the man onstage, was their host. He had bought every seat in off-Broadway's Sheridan Square Playhouse to take them to the long-running (seven months) revival of Jerome Kern's Leave It to Jane...
...towering, snow-topped mountain ranges of the Indian subcontinent. And as the earth's face changed beneath the speeding plane, something of the old, old world changed imperceptibly too. In Pakistan, Afghanistan and India last week, the shapes and colors and sounds of older centuries mingled and fell around Dwight Eisenhower, as in a vast kaleidoscope, into strange patterns. Each pattern formed a new sensation, each sensation was etched with the faces of the multitudes reaching out from the tangles of the past toward something of the promising future...
...destined for Algeria. Schlüter survived that first bomb attempt and a later one that buckled his Mercedes sedan and killed his mother. Frankfurt Gun-Runner Georg Puchert was not so lucky. When he started his Mercedes one morning last March, a bomb exploded squarely under him. Puchert fell dead across the wheel, summoning police by the pressure of his body on the horn...
Limbering Up. In Aosta, Italy, Salvatore Bracciorosso was arrested after using his wooden leg to fell several opponents in a barroom brawl...
...maid of high or low degree Was safe from his unbridled lechery. Within his house, upon his maids And servants' wives he preyed. Until he fell into the error Of thinking that his mortal shell would last forever...