Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Singlehanded, Leo Ernest Durocher has probably set sport's code of fair play back a hundred years. His fits of anger rise and blow away like gusty March winds over Greenpoint. He uses these gusts to advantage. Durocher's credo is: "You've got to win in this game, and how you do it isn't too important...
...racking cough. Its undernourished people, though spared (thanks to UNRRA and private relief) from the dramatic pestilences that usually follow war, are succumbing by thousands to the insidious white plague of tuberculosis. Last week an Associated Press survey in Europe confirmed what many doctors have feared: T.B., on the rise for the first time in a century, is now Europe's No. 1 killer...
Even the National Association of Manufacturers, who had seen no danger of a wild price rise when the N.A.M. was axing OPA to death, was now worried. N.A.M. President Earl Bunting gloomed: "If the constant upward winding of the spiral continues, you'll see one of the most terrible busts this country ever...
...approved a civil service rule, prohibiting any inquiry into the political beliefs of an applicant for a federal job. It was a wise and liberal provision in days when the radical fringe consisted of nothing more horrendous than the Greenback National and Prohibition parties. It remained valid during the rise & fall of the Populist, Progressive, Bull Moose and Socialist-Labor movements. Their adherents were loyal to the U.S. first, to their party second-and never to a foreign government. Not until 1939 was the rule amended, to bar those who seek to overthrow the U.S. Government...
...diamonds (to put on his Garter star) for the King; an engraved gold tea service for the Queen, 17 graduated diamonds for Margaret-and for Elizabeth herself, 21 graduated brilliant-cut diamonds interspersed with baguettes to string on a necklace. For Elizabeth that day will mean also a rise in income from ?6,000 to ?15,000 a year, and the chance to manage her money...