Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...model changeover, and the Fed itself noted that November production schedules indicate a "marked recovery." Bank loans to business were also down in October to a total $31.3 billion, a decrease of $796 million since midyear v. an increase of $1.2 billion in 1956 during the same period. The climb in the cost of living was also slowing down. Still another factor was personal incomes: down $1 billion between September and October to an annual rate of $345.5 billion, though still 3½% higher than October...
...then jogs back to the Field House. Some days the group goes out to Waltham, where as Peter Berle says, "we run up and down hills around the insane asylum. When we do the 'ski walk,' the inmates wonder why they have been committed." The men also skate and climb mountains on Sundays...
...death or disgrace of all his active rivals did not mean that Nikita was without opposition. In his climb to power, Khrushchev had downgraded the secret police, smashed the Stalinists, shaken up the bureaucrats who run Russian industry, and humiliated the army. Each of these victories had earned him new enemies in the middle ranks of Soviet officialdom-enemies who would be ever alert for weapons with which to cut him down...
DRESS PRICES will climb 7% in mid-December, when International Ladies Garment Workers Union gets 5½ % cost-of-living raise, first pay boost in four years. Average pay will jump from $2.73 to $2.88 an hour...
...band of armed robbers climb a hill near the mouth of the Nile and stare down at an awesome sight. A richly laden but crewless merchant ship is moored near shore, the remains of a banquet lie scattered along the beach, and all around sprawl the bodies of slain men. Only two are alive: a badly wounded young Greek named Theagenes, who is being tended by Charicleia, a girl so beautiful that the brigands think she must be a goddess...