Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Bolivia's drought-parched farm areas. He praised the "evident spirit of international cooperation" demonstrated by the $25 million currency-stabilization loan granted last December by the International Monetary Fund, the U.S. Treasury and the U.S. International Cooperation Administration, pointing to the boliviano's climb (from 13,000 to the dollar...
...Deeee-troit." When he downs his Vite-A-Minnies, children all over Detroit follow suit. "The mothers love me," says Soupy. He also gets the thanks of the fathers by offering such sound advice as: "When you are in the car with Daddy, don't shout or climb all over...
...Best in show, perhaps, was an iron weather vane in the shape of a rooster, presented by an appropriately named antiquarian, Myra Tinklepaugh. "They're hard to find," Mrs. Tinklepaugh briskly allowed. "I'm dickering for another one right now, not far away, only nobody wants to climb up to get it without insurance...
...Aware that the hospital will not take him in, he lies on the ground with others who have been turned away; later he strikes off on his own, and almost at once he begins to starve. He sees coconut trees laden with fruit, but he is too weak to climb the trees. Because he is a poor shot, he misses the chickens that might save him. The cross on a Philippine church draws him into a deserted village, and he senselessly shoots a returning woman who shrieks when she sees him. With other drifting troops, his effort to slip through...
...ousted King Farouk's abandoned yachts. A glittering new Shepheard's Hotel, to replace the old one burned by antiforeign mobs back in 1952, was ready to open its doors again to foreign spenders. The Egyptian cost of living had momentarily ceased its steady climb; the stock market was active, and toll money from a once-again busy Suez Canal was pouring into the national treasury. A prospective purchase of $35 million worth of cotton by France gave a needed boost to the export balance. The government announced a budget surplus of nearly $55 million...