Word: risen
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...rough. After the massacre of the Ruck family, Kukes were rounded up in large numbers, marched to a barbed-wire camp for "screening," beaten and kicked (reliable witnesses say) en route, including women with babies strapped on their backs. The number of Kikuyu "shot trying to escape" has risen in remarkable fashion. One Kenya police reserve unit hauled in four Kikuyu men. The prisoners were taken away in a truck, but when the truck reached its destination, all four Kikuyu were dead. It was said that they had "tried to escape." None of the four was armed. Kikuyu (including...
...some. Last week the new cost-of-living index (TIME, Nov. 6, 1950), embracing 300 items instead of the 225 in the old, actually showed a .2% drop. But the figures were six weeks old. A more sensitive index, that of the daily prices of 22 spot commodities, had risen 2.3% since Dwight Eisenhower's State of the Union speech announcing decontrols. These rises had not yet been reflected in retail prices, but would soon boost some costs since there was no sign of a slackening in demand...
...into the Red Wing line-up as an 18-year-old rookie from Saskatchewan, after part of a season practicing with the Wings' junior farm team at Gait, Ont. He was a rookie sensation, with 22 points (goals and assists) his first year. Since then his production has risen steadily. By the end of the 1951 season, he led the league with an alltime high of 86 points (43 goals, 43 assists), hit 86 again last year, and was voted the league's most valuable player. His 47 goals last year were second only to Richard...
...recent years, as air speeds have risen across the threshhold of the sound "barrier," a specialized aspect of aerodynamics, aeroelasticity, has come firmly into its own. For planes to fly faster, it was found that their life and control surfaces had to be thinner, in order to out down the drag offsets of air resistance. As these structures became thinner, it was seen that at certain speeds, they developed a noticeable flutter. When wings flutter, their airfoil shapes are distorted, and they sometimes lose all their lifting ability...
Just as planned, Moses' hustle & bustle paid off for A.P.L. as well as Arkansas, and the utility men of neighboring states are now copying Moses' methods. The company's generating capacity has tripled since the war, its net has risen more than 100% to $6,270,951; this year alone it is installing 2½ times more capacity than it owned in 1946. But Moses thinks there is still plenty of work to be done; for all the progress, Arkansas lost 2% in population from 1940 to 1950, still has 1,250,000 acres of idle farm...