Word: higher
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...passed through its bloodiest week. In five separate engagements, the French killed 427 rebels. The week's returns from the shambles brought the February total up to 3,900-more than the total U.S. dead in six months of fighting on Guadalcanal. But French casualties were higher than ever before. In February, Paris reported, France lost 297 men, killed in action, compared to 203 a year...
...disease. But measles is a severe illness, definitely dangerous for children under three and for adults; it can lead to pneumonia and severe middle-ear infections (though in well-doctored areas these are now contained by antibiotics). It can also cause brain inflammation with high (10%) mortality and a higher rate of permanent damage; there is a fulminating (fortunately rare) form called hemorrhagic or black measles that swiftly causes death...
...this afternoon, there just aren't enough of those Crimson darkhorses who continually perform above their capabilities and upset the dope. Ed Martin, figured for fifth in the mile, but expected to finish higher, is out with a damaged Achilles tendon, and Dyke Benjamin, in the same category in the two mile, has pulled his gastrocnemic muscle, that large, practically invulnerable muscle of the calf, and this will keep him out of action...
...Roosevelt said that "Science is especialy sugar-coated." No one is forced to go into science, but scientists receive higher pay and more privileges. Soviet science has made such great progress, she said, "because only in science can a Russian think perfectly freely...
...Students defy their teachers and spurn learning because they have no respect for either." Paying teachers higher wages is one way of inducing this respect and of attracting individuals to the profession, Whipple declared...