Word: fells
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...will not ruin but also we cannot cure and save this bourgeois society," he proclaimed. Before his government fell a year later, he had given France government-enforced collective bargaining, a 40-hour week, vacations with pay, regulated banks, a nationalized arms industry. Later, some men said that Blum's alliance against fascism had weakened and divided France, made it an easy prey to fascist aggression...
...became a professor at the London School of Economics, where he fell gradually under the spell of Fabian Socialists. He joined the British Labor Party. Laski still professed his fear of the state and of any centralization of authority, but he came to believe that only a Socialist government could destroy capitalism and pave the way for a genuine free society, which was just about where Karl Marx had stood. When his espousal of Socialism brought him the title of "the Red Professor," Laski retorted: "The devil [i.e., Laski] is not as red as he is painted. His evil-minded...
When the final curtain fell, applause rang out loud & long. From the spectators a voice called: "Garcia Lorca!" In response, the curtain rose on an empty stage. Everyone understood, and cheered...
Ananda liked to drive a jeep around the palace grounds, and he liked to play with guns. One day he fell sick. His mother brought him some castor oil and left him alone to sleep. A few hours later, Ananda was found dead in his bed, a pistol beside him and a bullet through his head...
...event is said to have marked the birth of public opinion in Siam. Up to that point the people had not approved or disapproved of public events; almost everybody disapproved of the death of Ananda. Murder was whispered, then shouted. A cabinet fell. An inquiry commission decided that Ananda had been shot either by-himself or somebody else. A trial began more than a year ago and is expected to last ten years more...