Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...Fall of the Family...
...scheme of society for which [we] stand is the establishment and maintenance of a basic standard of life and labor below which a man or woman, however old or weak, shall not be allowed to fall. The food they receive, the prices they have to pay for basic necessities, the homes they live in, their employment must be the first care of the state and must have priority over all other peacetime needs. Once we have made that standard secure, we propose to set the nation free as quickly as possible from the controls and restrictions which now beset...
...Then fall came and the trouble started. The town discovered that the Levisons were not sending seven-year-old Carolyn to school. Instead, Mrs. Levison was teaching her at home. The Levisons explained that they were Seventh-Day Adventists and that as far as they could see, their religion was strict on the matter. Said Mrs. Levison, quoting an Adventist text: "Parents are the best teachers of their children until they are eight to ten. Small children should be left free as lambs to run out of doors." As a former college student, Mrs. Levison thought she was fully qualified...
Wonder Boy. What had caused the jet-propelled wonder boy of U.S. selling and Lever Bros, to fall out? Certainly Luckman had made many enemies. He had ruthlessly cleaned house when he became president in 1946; he shook things up again last fall when, in moving the headquarters to New York (TIME, Oct. 17), he left several hundred Lever employees behind. Furthermore, in London's dignified Unilever House, Luckman's genius for self-promotion had not gone down well. But Unilever had seemingly been more than willing to overlook all that as long as Lever Bros.' profits...
...King's Men. The sensational rise & fall of a grass-roots demagogue, produced, directed and scripted by Robert Rossen (TIME...