Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...OVER TWO YEARS, WE OF THE NEW REPUBLICAN LEADERSHIP IN PHILADELPHIA HAVE BEEN HOPING THAT TIME WOULD DISCOVER AND TELL THE WORLD THE NEW "PHILADELPHIA STORY." WE HAVE BEEN HOPING THAT THE CLEAR, CLARION VOICE OF TIME WOULD RISE ABOVE THE DIN OF THE CHATTER AND "LET-THE-MUD-FLY" CONCEPTION OF PUBLIC SERVICE HELD BY OUR LOCAL ADMIXTURE OF RIGHT-WING, LEFT-WING . . . THANK YOU FOR YOUR OBJECTIVE APPRAISAL OF THE REPUBLICAN CANDIDATES IN THE 1949 CAMPAIGN AS MEN OF ALMOST UNBELIEVABLE POLITICAL PURITY...
...roar of the crowd's applause. Vice President Alben Barkley was inspired to a stirring attack on Republicans. Challenging the G.O.P.'s new campaign slogan, he cried: "Will those people who see in every tree frog a roaring lion, and in every angleworm a spreading adder, please rise and tell us what is statism...
...spectacles and said that the Labor government's policy and makeshift expedients had brought the nation close to bankruptcy. A Laborite heckled: "Sell your horse!" Churchill shot back: "I could sell him* for a great deal more than I paid for him, but I am trying to rise above the profit motive...
...dear country will plunge into the most frightful economic chaos . . ." Then Minister Pella played his trump cards. He announced 1) an immediate 10% reduction in the controlled price of bread, in answer to Communist alarm cries that as a result of the lira's slump prices would rise; and 2) the purchase in Washington of a little more than $100 million worth of gold (100 tons) to back the lira...
This move resulted from a discussion with executives of the Student Council yesterday. Council members told Bingham that they had received complaints from undergraduates who did not understand the unexpected rise in ticket price and then the seat allocation system as it worked for the Army game...