Word: risen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...months Ricardo Balbin, leader of the Radical opposition, had sat in jail for calling the President a "dictator" and a "liar" in a campaign speech (TIME, May 1, Dec. 11). During that time, criticism of such harsh and humorless punishment for a political opponent had risen sharply both at home and abroad. Balbin, more popular than ever before, shouted from his cell: "I have no regrets. I am less a prisoner than those on the outside...
...bigger problems cannot be solved so easily, however, since they all involve expenditure heavier than the Department thinks it can make. The Department is self-supporting within the University, paying its way on student medical fees alone. Doctors and ambulances cost money and the price, like most others, has risen. Fees, the officials argue, have not nearly kept up. Department administrators point out that they must budget carefully, since one epidemic could quite easily wreck any surplus on hand...
...centuries the great Red River has swept its rusty silt into the blue salt water of the Gulf of Tonkin. On the rich soil thus built up have risen the twin bishoprics of Bui Chu (pronounced Booey Choo) and Phat Diem (pronounced Fat Zee-em). In a predominately Buddhist country and against the rising tide of Viet Minh Communism, they have established their predominately separate existence as independent Roman Catholic theocracies ruled by Monsignor Le Huu Tu, Bishop of Phat Diem, and his protege Monsignor Pham Ngoc Chi, Bishop...
Actually, the great British publisher (London Times, Daily Mail) stated only half the case. The real reason why other journalists praise and envy the Post is that in the past 17 years it has risen from the unenvied position as Washington's No. 1 scandal sheet to become the most independent and vigorous paper in the capital. Harry Truman regards it as an opposition organ; the capital's reactionaries have long called it the "Washington edition of the Daily Worker." Yet its news judgment is so sure, its editorial voice so forthright, that, in a city where...
...debate went on, automen were open in charging that they had been double-crossed by Washington. After G.M. and Ford had raised their prices-and Valentine had requested them to rescind the increases-the automen had trekked to Washington with charts and figures to show that labor costs had risen 11% and that materials had jumped anywhere from 7% in steel to 300% in natural rubber this year...