Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...from home. Then, I don't think I've been really warm since I left South Carolina in 1941; in Normandy I used to sleep in a puddle and dream of the long, bright days when good Southerners sit in the shade and watch the heat waves rise off the parched red earth and feel the sweat slowly run over their ribs. I have missed the innate courtesy and good manners of Southerners. I have met too many loud S.O.B.s. I have been forced into rudeness myself too many times...
...home front. TIME correspondents, turning in their usual monthly reports on U.S. moods, found a rise here & there in doubts about Greece, Poland, British policy. But nowhere did they find any important desire to solve the doubts by evading the issues...
...second pattern is more certainly the explanation of his rise. The fact that he was a social worker is overrated; by far the most important function of his jobs has always been to bring people together. He did this as head of a city charity, of a large private charity (where he first met the rich and important people who helped him on his way up), and it is one of his principal functions now. It was he whom the President first sent to meet Churchill and Stalin, and he who first suggested the Atlantic Charter meetings where Churchill...
Blood Pressure and Breathing. Lieut. Kirsch's seat was in the forward cockpit just behind and between the two pilots. From there he took pilots' blood pressures, counted respirations by watching the rhythmic rise & fall of the little flow indicator ball in the oxygen control box (most flying was done at heights requiring masks), took pulses and armpit temperatures, watched for trembling, pallor, changes in pupil size. In all, he observed 16 different men during the ordeal by flak. Only three showed no fright reaction...
...weeks ago, traders were willing to bet that the line against inflation could be held. But last week, eyeing the boost in steel prices and textile wages-and the threatened cutbacks in civilian production-they sank their cash in common stocks and, in effect, bet that they would keep rising along with any general rise in prices...