Word: risen
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...educated at posh Westminster and at Oxford, Gaitskell preaches a brand of socialism that leftists talk scornfully of as "milk and water" ("If we want to snore ourselves to Sweden, this is the way"). As his closest advisers, he prefers university-trained economists rather than the men who have risen from factory and mine. "The day of the cloth cap in the Labor Party is over," laments one working-class ex-minister. Bustling about the country with the air of a don doing his best to be folksy, Gaitskell has not been able to match Prime Minister Harold Macmillan...
...reputation for poor workmanship and imitative design. In his effort to convince the West that Japan deserves less suspicion and more comradeship, Kishi can boast that his nation is the most democratic in Asia, has the highest literacy rate, and possesses a competent work force whose real wages have risen 20% in the past five years...
...Jesus Christ, the man of Nazareth, our crucified and risen Lord, he has come to us and shared our common lot, conquering sin and death and reconciling the world to himself...
...When Banker J. P. Morgan founded U.S. Steel Corp. in 1901 by merging several companies, the U.S. produced 37% of the world's steel-and Big Steel produced the lion's share of the U.S. total from birth. By 1920 the U.S. share of world production had risen...
...oilfields, brimming natural resources and a population of 87 million. Indonesia is mired by pocket-sized rebellions, technical ineptitude and whimsical administration. An overworked printing press has lately shot the rupiah (legally pegged at 11.40 to the dollar) as high as 200 on the black market. Commodity prices have risen 40% since January. And while its economy was deteriorating at an accelerated rate, its politics and its government were at a standstill...