Word: risen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Television has risen out of radio's golden age of mediocrity and has failed to develop its unique potential as a means of communication," Robert Saudek '32, Producer of "Omnibus," declared this week at the Summer School Conference on Educational Television...
...West Germany the Hamburger Abendblatt (circ. 310,000) prints daily reports of air radioactivity. Last week a banner headline screamed that the radioactivity of Hamburg's air had risen tenfold between July 3 and July 5. Not until the sixth paragraph did the Abendblatt's expert admit that the activity was still too low to do any damage whatever...
...aplenty of what lies ahead for mill towns such as Youngstown and Gary. For nine weeks 25,000 Birmingham steelworkers have refused to cross the picket lines of a strike called by the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen; throughout the area, sales have skidded and general unemployment has risen...
...trouble−armed revolts, underground opposition, widespread unrest. Recently a group of exiled Tibetans, led by the Da'ai Lama's brother, declared in a letter to India's Prime Minister Nehru that the Chinese had bombed the provincial capital of Litang and that Tibetans "had risen in aid of their fellow countrymen." The Indian press was skeptical of the claims and to a man ignored the letter; Indians are careful not to borrow trouble with their big Communist neighbor...
...song and legend a sun-drowsy land where only the beans jump, is leaping energetically toward new levels of prosperity in mid-1956. Industrial production, reported the RFC-like Nacional Financiera last week, is running a spanking 12% ahead of last year's record rate. Farm output has risen 50% in the last three years. In both consumer goods and food production, Mexico has gained important ground toward self-sufficiency. And like grace notes to these impressive fundamentals...