Word: gained
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...being urged by clandestine leaflets to cast blank ballots in all elections until their hero returns. A hodgepodge of smaller parties, whose leaders fear a licking at the polls, has also come out for blank ballots. Meanwhile, the powerful Radicals faction, headed by Lawyer Arturo Frondizi, is hoping to gain control of the assembly, vote its immediate dissolution and call for general elections. The People's Radical Party, which split off from the Frondizi group last winter, is the biggest party backing Aramburu on constitutional reform...
...other factors account for the intensity of Nasser's anti-Israeli campaign, Allon said. One is the natural desire to gain revenge for the horrendous losses the Eyyptians have sustained, both in the 1948 war and in the more recent Sinai campaign. Second, Nasser, like the other Arab rulers, maintain their personal positions only by dictatorial methods. They earnestly desire, said Allon, to destroy Israel, "this little show window of parliamentary democracy...
...Free Man." To gain Athenian dignity, Gropius ringed the three-story structure with tall, reinforced concrete columns, visible girders and horizontal ribbons, sheathed all of them in strips of the gleaming white Pentelic marble used in the Parthenon. This design forms a 20-ft. cantilever which serves as a sunbreak, reminiscent of the massive Greek porticos. The first floor has a screen of sky-blue ceramic tile; the upper two stories have a curtain wall of grey glass spandrels hung from the roof girders. For added elegance, the interior court will be ringed with columns of Pentelic marble, the base...
...long holiday weekend and other normally depressing factors. In the kind of selective trading that has become the trademark of 1957's bull market, investors sent International Business Machines up 21 points in two days to a new high of 358; Alcoa went to 101 for a 21% gain over the year's low, Revlon to 32 for a 34% gain; while California's Superior Oil jumped 145 points in four days to $1,695. All told, stocks on the Dow-Jones industrial average wound up the week 13.60 points higher...
...also have to pay more to their savings depositors. Reporting on his first six months last week, President S. Clark Beise of California's Bank of America, biggest U.S. bank, noted that assets had topped $10 billion for the first time, and that deposits showed a $400 million gain since last year to $8.9 billion. But the bank's six-month earnings were cut by $1,800,000 to $35.1 million because the bank had hiked its savings-deposit interest rate from 2% to 3% in January. In New York last week, some banks edged up savings-deposit...