Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...labor than the production of goods. Thanks to improving technology, productivity is still gaining in manufacturing; it has climbed at a 3½% annual rate so far in 1969. Outside of manufacturing, where the best way to raise efficiency is to induce people to perform better, productivity has fallen at a 5% rate so far this year...
...pair of scissors to replace the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., a huge windshield wiper for Grant Park in Chicago, a melting Good Humor bar to replace the Pan Am Building in New York. Nor are all the monuments big. The most poignant, in fact, is the smallest-a fallen hat for "a London street" to commemorate Adlai Stevenson...
...system was designed to bring Harvard football back to its feet after the most disastrous decade in its history, and a prerequisite was a drastically increased alumni recruiting program. The program has succeeded, but the burden of keeping the freshmen interested and of developing them into varsity material has fallen heavily on Lamar. He cannot be expected to do both, and the resulting dependence on the JV program, while fruitful, is frustrating for those who must wait three years to play. Mike Georges waited three years and finally got his chance while he was still interested. Some people, like Frank...
...hands of another writer the plot of Sons of Darkness could have easily have fallen prey to sensationalism. But Williams always keeps his per-spective. Although some of the characters are not fully developed. we are always aware of their humanity: Hod a killer yet a gentle man of principle; the Don. who takes a special interest in Browning in part because of a long-ago romance; Val. Browning's wife. who wears her hair au naturel. but who, like Browning. is firmly in the middle class: even Carrigan, the cop. who, furstrated with his job and marriage takes...
...repressive military regime of Argentine Dictator Juan Carlos Ongania has fallen on tough times. Last May a police crackdown on students touched off bloody big-city riots. Three weeks ago, railway workers set whole trains afire in response to a mobilization order...