Word: fells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Pineville, Kenny fell in love with football. His father scraped together $5 to help buy his football uniform, Pineville High being a poor school with little money to spend on athletics. For a month Kenny practiced hard, trying to make the team; he was wiry and quick but light (130 lbs., 5 ft. 10 in.). One October day when he showed up for practice, Kenny opened his locker and found that his football suit was gone-stolen. He gathered up his books, went home and told his mother: "I'll never go another day of school...
...Asia, this had not been enough. In Asia, the props of ordered freedom were just not strong enough to withstand the Communist pressure. So China fell while the U.S. argued about the political morals of Chiang Kai-shek and consoled itself with babble about the hopeless "complexity of the situation." After that, "the situation" became infinitely more complex and the reality harder & harder to ignore. The reality was: Communism was winning the victory and might never have to resort...
...forces available to MacArthur were more than adequate to deal with North Korea's obsolete air force and puny navy. But the general's trip to Korea had given him firsthand evidence that air and naval support alone would not save the situation. As the defenders fell back, President Truman on June 30 gave MacArthur permission to send in U.S. ground forces...
Chopped Chips. Down went the blue chips. Chrysler fell ¾ points to 68, A.T. & T. 71 to 148, General Motors 6⅝ to 85, U.S. Steel 3 points to 31. The Dow-Jones average dropped a frightening 8 points, to 206.33, scaring even those calm investors who had piled up paper profits during the bull market into selling and taking what profit remained...
...same blue-chip stocks which had led the market's upward climb were hard hit. Chrysler fell 7 points to 73, General Motors was down 6⅜ to 90⅛, and A.T. & T. down 5⅞ to 153. Television stocks, a favorite of speculators, also skidded...