Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Democracy's Dilemma. The evidence was strong but it merely served to prove what everybody knew: that Franco was an Axis stooge. Spaniards, sick of civil war, were not going to rise against him because of the U.S. disclosures. The question was: what were the Allied governments going to do about it? France, Britain and the U.S. issued a note expressing hope that "patriotic and liberal-minded Spaniards" may soon find the means to bring about "a peaceful withdrawal of Franco, the abolition of Falange, the establishment of an interim or caretaker government. . . ." Beyond that, there was only...
...support 'batteries of cameras, radio-controlled and sheathed in lead against radiation. A legion of instruments will be exposed on the sand, built into concrete bunkers, or sunk in the lagoon. They will measure radiation, heat, shock and blast. Twenty sunken instruments will measure the waves, which might rise to a height of several hundred feet...
...great day itself will be chosen by Colonel B. G. Holzman, a meteorologist. For proper observation, there should be no overcast. But the Colonel's greatest worry will be the mighty cloud of radioactive gases and particles which will rise like a thunderhead above the explosion. From it may fall a deadly sprinkle, and the Colonel's job is to see that it falls on empty ocean...
...matter how price control is administered, it works against the essential genius of U.S. industry, inspired by the profit motive to produce more & more at a constant rise in wages and living standards. An economy with price controls is not really free enterprise at all-the vital forces of profits, competition and the free market cannot operate...
Progressive ways like Lincoln's sent many a graduate on to other schools for the embarrassing discovery that he was short in such progressive nonessentials as spelling and long division. They also gave rise to many a joke, like the one about the boy who went home triumphantly with an "A in sandpile." But doctors, lawyers, professors, writers and middling prosperous intellectuals lined up to send their kids to Lincoln. As more & more of them paid out Lincoln's high (current top: $600 a year) tuition, Lincoln-like Horace Mann-settled down into its once-new ways...