Word: befallen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...unusual mixed economy where 20% to 25% of industry is held by government-controlled corporations. These corporations, which are concentrated in steel, transportation, construction and other basic industries, often have a privileged access to capital that leaves smaller private companies short of cash-an ill that has never befallen Fiat...
...those sorry circumstances have befallen Asher J. Cole, 58, co-founder (in 1948) and chief executive of National Video Corp. The company is the Chicago TV tubemaker whose stock had been one of the darlings of the American Stock Exchange, rising from a low of $10.75 in 1964 to a peak of $120 a share in 1966. Now it is down to about $13. After reeling off a series of sad statistics to his stockholders, Cole announced that he would yield his presidency to a younger executive, move into the chairmanship-and give up his yearly salary "as a gesture...
McCarthy must also realize that candidates who do manage to survive Wisconsin often die at the national conventions. This "Wisconsin whammy" has twice befallen Estes Kefauver, the choice of state Democrats in 1952 and '56, who lost the nomination both years to Adlai Stevenson...
...seemed like the end of the line. Suddenly, all the legal breaks went McChan's way. Out went his indictment, because Maryland's top court voided a requirement that grand jurors-including the grand jurors that indicted him-affirm belief in God. The same fate has befallen several hundred other indictments; in many cases the result has been a new indictment and a retrial. But a retrial of McChan was out, because the Supreme Court's new confession rules barred the key evidence against him. To be sure, McChan was also accused of leading a prison riot...
...people love each other," Hemingway once wrote, "there can be no happy end to it," meaning one must die before the other. "Being a widow is no picnic," says Betty Bacall, "you lose your place," a shattering experience that has befallen 1,900,000 women in the 40-to-60 age group. "I had to go on because of my children, and I had to because of my own sense of survival. Bogey's belief always was that if one mourns too long, one mourns for oneself rather than for the one who's gone. Life...