Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...order to test people's response to a concrete situation involving sexual morality, the Harris interviewers put this hypothetical question; "Suppose you had a 20-year-old daughter who came home from college and told you that she had fallen in love with a young man and had sexual relations with him but isn't sure she wants to marry him. What would you do?" Only 2% would take the drastic action of disowning her. A huge majority, 90%, would talk it over with her at length and urge her to discontinue the sexual activity; 61% would "tell...
...embellished until they sink again?about the day that Prince Albert and Princess Paola of Belgium visited the villa for skeet shooting and the time that a U.S. Navy admiral suddenly and inexplicably vanished in the middle of a Fielding party. It turned out that he had fallen from the rock garden, broken a leg, and painfully dragged himself half a mile to his waiting barge...
...only once, when he had to pay $3,800 to taxi operators he called "the biggest crooks and racketeers in Europe." Even friendship is no insurance against a Fielding knock if an establishment goes sour. But he knocks in the pained tones of an evangelist trying to persuade a fallen woman to return to the flock...
...Vallavielle was mistakenly shot and wounded by American paratroopers, but it did not affect his gratitude to the liberators. Over the years, he has built a small museum in a blockhouse and has seen to it that the original wooden markers naming local roads and paths after fallen American soldiers were replaced by neat cement bornés bearing the information. In the village's Café du 6 Juin, under crude murals depicting the invasion, the locals sit over their Calvados and chat about the débarquement as if it had happened yesterday...
...housing construction jumped by 10% last year, more than the increase in any other item of family living expenses. Home-building costs went up at an annual rate of 12% during March, the latest month for which statistics have been compiled. At the same time, U.S. housing output has fallen seriously behind the nation's needs. Last year the U.S. built just under eight houses and apartments for every 1,000 people compared with 16 per 1,000 during 1950, the peak year. On a per capita basis, U.S. housing output has fallen from world leadership to a level...