Word: risen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...brought the twin advantages of an iron nerve and an unpleasantly intimate knowledge of Moscow's methods. This was Gomulka's second appearance as first secretary of the Polish party; his first tour wound up in his imprisonment in 1951 on charges of Titoism. And he had risen to party leadership in the first place largely because he was one of the few prewar Polish Communists of any stature available when Poland fell under the domination of the Red army at the end of World War II. This lonely eminence he owed to the fact that...
...fellow to trap in Roosevelt: the Lion and the Fox, and he knows it. Burns wears his objectivity on both sleeves. Though his F.D.R. is not noticeably different from the composite constructed in a score of other books, his book is more vividly told and more sharply dramatized, has risen high on bestseller lists since its publication three months ago. Burns quotes with approval what Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, retired and 92, said of F.D.R.: "A second-class intellect. But a first-class temperament!" Nothing in this biography contradicts the judgment. F.D.R. played the presidency by ear, sometimes with real...
Actually, there is right on both sides. To stay healthy,, domestic producers must constantly find new reserves. Yet, in the past decade, while U.S. oil demand has risen 71%, proven domestic reserves have increased only 48%. One big reason is that oil is getting harder and more expensive to find. According to Independent Petroleum Association of America, the cost of finding, developing and producing oil and gas has jumped 43% since 1948 v. a mere 6.5% increase in the general level of crude-oil prices...
...more he listened to his friend's description of the Ecole Polytechnique of Paris, that day in the 1830s, the more excited became Manhattan's great Philanthropist Peter Cooper. Once a $25-a-year apprentice to a coachmaker. Cooper had risen to fame and fortune with only about a year's formal schooling behind him. But in Paris, according to his friend, there were hundreds of poor young men willing to live "on a bare crust of bread" to attend the Ecole. As the friend went on, Cooper began to think: "How glad I should have been...
...Britain is in no such happy position. It feels it should have between $4 billion and $5 billion in gold and dollar reserves before the pound is strong enough for convertibility. In Britain's economy, beset by inflation, imports have risen more than exports, until gold and dollar reserves have slipped from $3 billion in 1954 to $2.2 billion this year. They may dip lower if the Suez crisis forces Britain to buy oil from the dollar area. To right the balance, West Germany argues that Britain should devalue its pound, thus make British goods more attractive for export...