Word: climbed
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...third quarter over the same period in 1959, lifted per-share earnings for the nine months to $6.51 v. $5.57 last year. Aided by 70% load factors on its new jets, which now carry 56% of United's passengers, United Air Lines made a steep climb; President William A. ("Pat") Patterson announced record third-quarter earnings of $1.97 per share, up from $1.74 a year ago. Ford, riding the compact crest, announced an extra quarterly dividend...
...Vermont's farm-bred Congressman Justin Smith Morrill looked about him and saw an ill-trained nation speeding toward "decay and degradation." His bold proposal: launch land-grant colleges in every state to educate farmers, mechanics and "those at the bottom of the ladder who want to climb up." On a tense day in July 1862-as McClellan frittered away the Union Army at Malvern Hill-Lincoln signed the Morrill Act that gave 17.4 million acres to "people's colleges." So began the biggest effort in the history of man to hand higher education to anyone who wanted...
Wherever Jack Kennedy and Dick Nixon went, they drew record crowds, roaring responses. In Cleveland last week 200,000 swarmed around Kennedy (and Senator Frank Lausche, habitually a loner, hastened to climb on the bandwagon). Roaring through Democratic Dixie, Nixon drew an astounding throng of 70,000 in Memphis. In their first joint television appearance, the two men seemed as evenly matched-though differing in style and pace-as a pair of Tiffany cuff links. Among independents and waverers, however, who had not felt the magic of personal contact, there remain lingering doubts and misgivings about both candidates. The candidates...
...political battles for him too (once Earl nearly chewed off the finger of an opponent, another time lunged at a man and bit him in the throat). Yet, even at the peak of Huey's power, Earl was still in the shadow, forbidden by the Kingfish to climb the higher reaches. Their falling out was bitter; to Earl, Huey was "the yellowest coward that God ever let live...
...good woman and all), there are a few nice touches. Says a married chick to a dastard who is fumbling with her farthingale: "I think I'll go put on something a little more comfortable, like my husband." And when an overheated party girl who is trying to climb into Newman's cummerbund tells him, "I'm crowding 19," he asks, "Years or guys?" Actress Woodward is sexily soulless as a wife who flies her scarlet letter as if it were a cocktail pennant, and tauntingly calls up her lover while Newman broods (Newman does little...