Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...given by Lord Winterton, "supported by disorderly cheers and a playful shot toward the ceiling by an enthusiastic resister." Said he: "He [Chamberlain] has spent the last five years in Ottawa and Washington. We have heard his voice on the BBC. It was indeed a voice from afar! I rise to say with respect that his speech shows he is just a little out of touch with public opinion here (cheers and shots from the galleries). . , . We must now entrust to untired minds and fresh bodies the duty of rebuilding the future of our country...
...Girls' enrollments, already at an alltime high, will rise only a smidgen more...
...surprised, we decided to make it an annual event. The choice is in no way an accolade, nor a Nobel Prize for doing good. Nor is it a moral judgment. (Al Capone was runner-up in riotous, bootleg 1928.) The two criteria are always these: who had the biggest rise in fame; and who did the most to change the news for better (like Stalin in 1942) or for worse (like Stalin in 1939, when his flop to Hitler's side unleashed this worldwide...
...rushing out from his fixed defenses the enemy may give us the chance to turn his great gamble into his worst defeat. So I call upon every man of all the Allies to rise now to new heights of courage, of resolution and of effort...
...rise is typical of the railroads' wartime boom. The stream of freight to Southern industries and troops to & from Southern camps boosted L. & N.'s gross from $88 million in 1939 to $178 million for the first ten months of 1944. Net profits this year should run well over $15 million, double those of five years...