Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...made George up the way children invent playmates. By such a device, they said, Bill Heirens could remain an average son and student, date nice girls and go to church, and at the same time carry on a one-man crime wave to make even Chicago's hair rise. Chicago's hair rose, but the back of its neck tingled pleasantly...
Father & Daughter. "One year's socialism practically broke up our home. On an average of twice a week violent controversy has broken out, causing a dangerous rise in my father's blood pressure and frequently reducing me to tearful exasperation. But apart from this domestic disturbance, materially socialism hasn't altered our way of life one jot or tittle-despite my father's gloomy prophecies of grave drops in the family budget...
...back on their prices. Today's list of price complaints has been reprinted as received. The Oyster Shell (restaurant) all meat dishes up $.05 to $.10 Woolworth 5-and 10 shoe trees from $.39 to $.49 Fiske's ice cream, with dinner, $.10 to $.15 Harvard Variety Store $.05 rise on ice cream cones Young Lee's Restaurant all dinners up about 30 percent...
...courtesy that many an American officer has not yet learned. In Weimar the reporters went down to the National Theater and found a pale, 26-year-old youth sitting in Goethe's chair. Hans Viehweg became a Socialist after the war, but switched quickly to Communism. Thereafter, his rise was rapid. He served briefly as head of the local radio station, then became head of all Thuringian theaters...
...this ad in the Tulsa Tribune last week a merchant angrily said his say against the flood of rising food prices in the U.S. While Congress still wrangled over OPA (see NATIONAL AFFAIRS), most manufacturers held the line on prices, worried lest a sudden boost bring back OPA with a rush. But food was something else again. The Bureau of Labor Statistics gravely reported that its food index had jumped 16.1 points last week alone. And with commodity prices rising all along the line, chances were that food would continue to rise...