Word: fallen
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...dilemma born of geography and the hard knocks of history. Jaruzelski was 16 when Nazi Germany attacked Poland in 1939, and he recalls vividly how, on a clear September day 51 years ago, he and his family crossed into Lithuania as refugees. "I thought then that the heavens had fallen in on me," Jaruzelski recalls. "We were convinced that we would return home soon, that an English-French offensive would enable the Polish army to go on fighting against the Germans. It was not to happen...
Samuel Marx, who was story editor at MGM at the time, thought otherwise. Bern had told him that he once lived in New York City with an actress named Dorothy Millette. She had mysteriously fallen into a coma, and Bern had placed her in an institution. Ten years later, she had just as mysteriously recovered and come to California to resume their common-law marriage...
...rebate, which represents a sizeable portion of the Coop's annual profits, has fallen steadily for the last several years. In 1989, students received a rebate equal to 7 percent of their total purchases. In 1988 the rate was 7.8 percent, and in 1987, the rebate rate was 9.5 percent...
...from all four teams attacked the relatively flat first mile. The pace slackened, however, as the race entered the woods for two miles. A lead pack of eight runners, includingHarvard's Spencer Punter and Chris Woodward ledthrough the first three miles. When the runnersemerged from the trees, Woodward had fallen offthe pace, and no other Harvard runner was able torecover from the fast start...
...story also fits comfortably into the Pudding's tradition of poking fun at a particular era or theatrical genre. However, the musical strikes new ground in its choice of the 1940s, a period which, according to Pudding officers, had never before fallen under the organization's satirical gaze...