Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attribute the wartime show ing of Russian agriculture to Soviet planning or to the inherent efficiency of col lective farming. Candidly, he said that "patriotism - an outstanding rise in pa triotism" was what kept Russian food production from collapsing...
This report was in keeping with the pattern of economic agreements already woven around Hungary, Rumania, Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Finland. If true in detail, it perhaps explained why the Russians could afford to permit the rise of vigorous political opposition throughout the Soviet sphere (TIME, Nov. 12). But, in itself, no economic scheme could guarantee that the opposition would stay within Russian bounds. The opposition parties had risen under the knouts of fear and want; they might continue to thrive, especially with encouragement...
...Vatican on collaborationist clergymen was not clearly defined. Official feeling was embodied in an age-old, unwritten law of the Church that its prelates, like Caesar's wife, must be above suspicion. The law is, in effect: any prelate whose personal conduct, past or present, gives rise to discussion or dissension which might reflect unfavorably on the Church must feel duty-bound-guilty or not-to renounce his dignity to prevent adverse discussion of the Church...
Next spring, when the $4 million Harvey S. Firestone Memorial Library begins to rise on Princeton's campus, it wall contain a special poetry room dedicated to Francis Charles MacDonald. The anonymous donor of $20,000 prefers to be known only as "a grateful advisee...
...billion a year program for wartime food subsidies. By next June all payments are due to end, including the whopping $534 million to dairy farmers and the modest $7.4 million to prune growers. Government pencil pushers last week figured out just how much retail food prices could rise when subsidies are dropped. Their figures: milk will go up 1.3? a quart; bread 1? a loaf; cheese 4.8? a lb.; pork 4.4? a lb.; prunes 4.2? a lb.; flour...