Word: fells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...valo, who seems to believe that he has led his people through the same kind of revolution as Mexico's, Guatemala became the hemisphere's most left-wing country. In their zeal to proclaim their independence of the U.S., Arévalo's followers fell under the influence of anti-yanqui propaganda put out by local Communists, and accepted Red leadership in their trade unions. Arévalo gave all moral and material aid he could to the Caribbean Legion's attempts to overthrow rightist dictatorships in Nicaragua, Honduras and the Dominican Republic...
This shocker was based on a letter which "fell into the hands of the Spanish Chief of State" in 1943, according to Figaro. It was supposedly written by President Roosevelt to Jacob Zabronsky, president of the National Council of Young Israel, and it designated him Roosevelt's secret emissary to Stalin. It instructed Zabronsky to promise Finland and the Baltic states to Stalin, as well as a port on the Mediterranean, and commented on Red Marshal Timoshenko's "short but fruitful stay" in Washington. It ended with thanks to Zabronsky for presenting F.D.R. with a copy...
...time the final curtain fell on the Holy Grail drama, many a listener was dabbing at his eyes. Those who could compare it with the Metropolitan Opera's traditional Good Friday Parsifal (untraditionally absent this year) found the Bloomington version staged and acted more cleanly, if musically less professional...
Button was the overwhelming winner, gaining first place votes in both the combined compulsory school figures and the free skating events from all six judges. Jim Grogan of Tacoma, Washington, stayed surprisingly close in the compulsory figures but then fell far behind in the free skating competition...
...Prensa's death had been expected ever since the paper fell into a government-encouraged coma two months ago. Dictators are notoriously thin-skinned and Prcon and his wife Evita could not endure the barbs of La Prensa indefinitely. The only question was whether they would take the step of complete suppression, knowing that an unfavorable response in other countries was inevitable...