Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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HARRY TRUMAN: I don't know whether you fellows ever had a load of hay or a bull fall on you. But last night the moon, the stars and all the planets fell on me. If you fellows ever pray, pray...
...been in extreme pain, unable to sit up for more than a few hours. Last week, in a four-hour operation, a nonmalignant tumor in and around his spine was removed and with it, friends hoped, the real reason for his failure to recuperate from his operation last fall. But the 66-year-old Republican, who had voiced all that was best in international responsibility and generosity, was lost to the Senate for the rest of the session...
...Plastiras, and favored by the U.S. Then followed maneuvers to line up right-wing royalist support behind Venizelos. U.S. Ambassador Henry F. Grady quickly threatened to withhold ECAid, implying that only a center coalition could govern Greece efficiently. After 23 frustrating days in office, Venizelos resigned, blaming his fall on "the Allied factor." This is a phrase frequently heard in Greece; it is the Greeks' word for Uncle Sam. Grady's intervention in Greek politics had been decisive, but so heavy-footed that the prestige of "the Allied factor" was now closely bound up with the success...
...project shared also by LIFE and the New York Times. New Editor Coote plans no major changes in the Telegraph's impartial news coverage or its Conservative editorial policy. Says he: "We have succeeded to some extent in being serious without being dull. I hope we shall never fall into the disastrous policy of trying to be [editorially] impartial...
Convinced that "television definitely will have an adverse effect on attendance," the Western Conference this week barred "live" TV of all Big Ten football games this fall. The only Big Ten concession: filmed versions of the games will be offered for sale to TV stations the day after the games are played...