Word: falling
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...brave battle to get rid of millions of dollars of pork-barrel items. The only effective gesture at economizing was an amendment directing the Administration to shave 10%, some way, from all non-defense items, for an estimated saving of $525 million. Thus the onus of specific economies would fall on the Administration, while Congress took the credit...
...wanted a certain airfield at New Britain's Cape Gloucester (the Japanese base at Rabaul was at the island's other end). On Dec. 26, 1943, the 1st Marine Division landed on Gloucester. The jungle was worse than the Japanese. Twenty-five men were killed by the fall of giant, rain-rotted trees. Men sank in the swamps up to their waists. In the constant rain, food turned to slop. Letters fell apart in pockets; every day bright blue-green mold had to be scraped from shoes. There was bloody fighting for Hill 150, Hill 660, Aogiri Ridge...
...Next fall, during their regular nine-week language period, Headmaster Clark plans to send other students to Mexico to study Spanish. Next spring, it will be Luxembourg for German. When U.S. colleges get the present crop of Kiski boys, Clark hopes, they will find them as interested in studies as in football. And they may find that some of them are good football...
...Last fall, in a move toward a negotiated peace, the academicians agreed to let the Tate take a hand in the picking. The first purchase under the new system, a tasteful portrait by Augustus John, seemed to satisfy everybody. With the second, the conservatives set up a howl...
...H.J.Res.497. When the Senate concurs and Harry Truman adds his signature, foreign-owned works of art on loan to the National (or to other galleries approved by the National) will be exempt from U.S. death taxes. And the cream of the Gulbenkian collection will go on view this fall for at least two years...