Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cranberry scare illustrated the level of idiocy to which the American people have fallen [Nov. 23]. Cigarettes, long recognized as a possible cause of cancer, are still indiscriminately sold to people who can't think for themselves. But the minute that a possible cancer-causing chemical was thought to be on some cranberries, the whole nation went into pandemonium...
...course, as all the world knows, at times and in some respects, we have fallen short of the high ideals held up for us by our founding fathers. But one of the glories of America is that she never ceases her striving toward this shining goal...
...start" diplomacy, Capehart calls it-rather than taking imaginative initiative. One example of policy drift was Panama, where the U.S. was hastening to make concessions after a series of riots. Other examples: the no-medals-to-dictators policy, which came only after all but two of the dictators had fallen, and the $1 billion Inter-American Development Bank, which seemingly grew out of the stoning of Vice President Nixon...
...everything holy? Are we all in heaven now and don't know about it? Jamambi, jamambi, jamambi, jamac." After that, the plot thins, but it is the flavor that matters. On the floor, walls, ceiling are "toothbrush cockroaches, coffee cockroaches, peanut butter cockroaches," and "the Empire State has fallen into the Gowanus Canal...
...undertook a radical housecleaning of his Storer Broadcasting Co. (five TV and seven radio stations in nine cities). Three deejays at Detroit's WJBK bit the dust, as did one Joe Niagara in Philadelphia. Meanwhile, ABC's affiliate WXYZ chopped down still another in Detroit. Of the fallen, Detroit's Tom Clay was the first to tell his story in detail-and a fascinating, lurid story...