Word: falling
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Dates: during 1940-1940
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...that factory production might be interrupted as little as possible, "industrial watchers" from among their own ranks were posted by workers, to give the to-shelter alarm only when bombs, seemed actually about to fall. To get more sleep, British householders were encouraged to build new bombproof shelters directly attached to their dwellings, with water, light and other facilities let in from the home supply...
...story was different. Bombs had begun to fall, by day and by night. The paraphernalia of A. R. P. were part of the landscape. Everyone was doing his bit-even the gentlewomen who practiced rifle shooting against the day when parachutists might land in their rose gardens. The amateur spirit was unconquerable...
...Bourne, Jr., 85, onetime U. S. Senator from Oregon (1907-13), "first man elected to the Senate by popular vote" when the Oregon legislature, anticipating the 17th Amendment (1913) providing for direct election of Senators, agreed to be bound by the election returns; after breaking his hip in a fall; in Washington...
...betting was outlawed in 1893. True to tradition, the operators of Jersey's first 20th-century race track will be the Monmouth Park Racing Association-a group headed by Horse Fancier Amory Lawrence Haskell, M.F.H., on whose Red Bank estate the tony Monmouth County Steeplechase is held each fall...
...worried over horses and cattle in war-torn countries. Dr. Cassius Way of Manhattan, an internationally noted horse doctor, told his colleagues that thousands of fine breeding and milk cows in the Low Countries had been slaughtered by the invading Germans. Next winter, he prophesied, hordes of animals will fall sick, may transmit many of their diseases to human beings...