Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...week; after-tax income of individuals exceeded $400 billion in 1963; corporate profits before taxes passed $50 billion last year. CEA Chairman Walter Heller's analysis claimed that by spring this advance will be "the second-longest peacetime expansion of this century-exceeded only by the prolonged climb out of the depths of the Great Depression." This "remarkable performance," he said, "clearly shows the vitality of the private economy in an environment of progressive federal policy...
Darkness at 2. Once he gets in, the graduate is often assigned to several different departments over a period of two years or so before settling into a specialty. Statistically, a new associate has about one chance in seven of eventually reaching a partnership. The climb takes about ten years in New York, but in California an able newcomer can hope to become a partner in five years, or even less...
Monro's famous "wild parties and sexual intercourse" sentence brought vivid images to the mind of the News writer. His playful lead ("Sizzling sex parties--where the girls climb the walls right along with the ivy--are the current rage at Harvard") is followed by images of "Cliffies going "bed to bed" in the dorms, an unborn child fathered by "the whole damned football team of an Eastern college," and other similar incidents...
...Dark." Guiding P.G. & E. on its fast upward climb is its new president, Robert H. Gerdes, 59, a lean, shy lawyer whose voice sounds like Jimmy Stewart's. Gerdes joined P.G. & E. in 1929, worked mainly on legal and financial affairs before replacing Norman Sutherland as president last July (Sutherland died a few weeks later from cancer-TIME, Sept. 13). Though a native Californian, Gerdes has a utility man's notions about the profitability of bad weather. "We like it wet and dark," he says, "and the colder the better...
Both species are beetles whose larvae live in damp places and feed on snails. The adult females cannot fly. When they reach maturity, they wait patiently for dusk, then climb to a high spot and turn on their seductive light. Males flying overhead spot the beacon and drop down to pay court...