Word: fallen
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...liberation of Seoul last September, South Korean firing squads have been busy liquidating "enemies of the state"-Korean civilians accused of sabotage or collaboration with the Communists. With savage indifference, the military executioners shot men, women and children. Some people said that more than 700 civilians had already fallen before the guns of the R.O.K. troops. Others said the total was at least 800. Last week in Seoul, while U.S. and British troops voiced their loathing of the wholesale slaughter, three American clergymen-a Methodist and two Roman Catholics-made a formal protest...
This country is more poorly prepared than it was in 1941. We have delayed all-out mobilization. The Administration has fiddled with war preparations. The Munitions Board has fallen down in its job of stockpiling-we are short of wool and even of cotton...
...Having fallen flat on his face last Nov. 7 when he failed to produce enough Chicago votes to re-elect Scott Lucas to the United States Senate, egg-bald, ulcer-plagued little Jake Arvey made good his threat to resign as boss of the Cook County Democratic organization. He did it, he said, "for reasons of health." To make him feel better, Democratic leaders promised him the job of Illinois National Committeeman, which has been vacant since Boss Ed Kelly died...
...military strength. Most of Mao's social and economic promises to China's people have been put aside. Although many Western observers expected a rise in living standards to follow the end of the civil war, the opposite has happened. Living standards in most of China have fallen since Mao took over, largely because of the disruption and liquidation of the merchant (distributor) class. Railroads and other public services are much more efficiently managed than during the civil war. Inflation has been checked, largely because taxes are more ruthlessly collected. Official bribery has undoubtedly decreased (because Communists...
...pictures. Within a few hours, all of the 100,000 home subscribers had their extra, and another 50,000 copies of Newsday were on newsstands. But Newsday didn't pat itself on the back for its progressive journalism. Instead, it candidly confessed that in one way it had fallen down on its journalistic job, that it had not done all it could to prevent the accident from happening. Said Newsday somberly: "We have known for years that the Long Island Rail Road was in deplorable condition. The wreck at Rockville Centre [TIME, Feb. 27] tipped...