Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Eire dependent on the Sassenach? Isn't that the fine talk to be coming out of the mouth of an Irishman? And did his party delegates rise like one man and cry: "Take off your shoes, Mulcahy, and show us the true webbed feet of a bogtrotter-or bad cess...
...ended the discussion by stating that whether wars would go on forever was up to the people themselves. "When the people," he asserted, "rise up and say, 'We've had enough of this, let's try something else,' then and only then will we even glimpse a future without periodic wars...
...months, currency in Free China had remained steady at a black market rate of 200 Chinese dollars to one U.S. dollar. This gave rise to a faint hope that the rate might be stabilized, a start made towards a basis for postwar trade. Last week this hope went aglimmering. The Chinese dollar, which slipped after the fall of Kweilin and Liuchow, tobogganed to one-third of its previous value. Last week it took 600 Chinese dollars to buy one U.S. dollar. Businessmen, who have long staggered under loads of currency on their way to the bank, now hire coolies...
Glimpses of the Moon. Last week Britain's famed jack-of-all-sciences, J. B. S. Haldane, philosophically predicted a big postwar future for V2, which he thought could rise to 200 miles if fired vertically. Mused Haldane: "it could take photographs . . . [of] the sun and perhaps other heavenly bodies. . . . For the cost of a day of war, it should be practicable to send a series of rockets round the moon and photograph its far side...
...military leaders. From 146 B.C., year of the destruction of Carthage, to 49 B.C., when Julius Caesar crossed the Rubicon on his way to make himself dictator, the story of Rome is told in terms that should be familiar to everyone who has seen a Hitler and a Mussolini rise to power with the support of the multitudes. Unlike modern precursors and advocates of totalitarianism, the Gracchi, Marius, Mark Antony and Julius Caesar had no great desire to overturn republican institutions. But they were pushed along the road to dictatorship by the fecklessness of the opposition...