Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Never intended for bobsleds, the Cresta Run is not "a downhill straightaway" [TIME, Jan. 7], but a winding, downhill and very steep course, three-quarters of a mile long, including eleven banked curves, viz: "First Bank," "Curzon," "Thoma," "Rise," "Battledore," "Shuttlecock," "Stream Corner," "Bulpett," "Scylla," "Charybdis," "The Finish." "Battledore" and "Shuttlecock" are almost S-shaped...
Glowing with an enthusiasm which some 5,000 residents had discovered long before him, Dr. Gavrilovic described what was going to happen to the area. It would be a small nation in itself. Big buildings would rise. There would be hotels, restaurants, shops, a railroad station. Thousands of tourists would flock to visit...
Even so, there was no violence, hardly even a rise in tempers. In Pittsburgh, a judge issued an injunction limiting pickets at Carnegie-Illinois' Homestead plant to ten at each gate. The union protested, but obeyed. In Manhattan, Novelist Elizabeth Janeway (The Walsh Girls) formed a committee to raise funds for G.M. strikers, got $35,000 in three days from a heterogeneous list of contributors who agreed with the slogan "Hunger Must Not 'Be a Weapon." The committee promptly began sending the money out to buy food and pay rents. In New York, the city's Welfare...
Chester Bowles had apparently been persuaded to go along with a steel price rise now (some said it would be about $6 a ton), with the promise that he would get full backing to hold the price line in the future. In effect, he had been given the assignment of working out with John Snyder a new price-wage structure-at a higher level...
...bulk of Animal Farm describes the slow rise to absolute power of Comrade Napoleon and the gradual transmogrification of the pigs. Comrade Snowball proposed to industrialize Animal Farm by building a stone mill. Comrade Napoleon declared the plan nonsense. He drove...