Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...held until he returns it. Then he wants the officer to report in the third person: "Colonel Smith of X Regiment reporting to the Commanding General." This formal procedure accomplished correctly, he usually thaws cordially. At staff meetings his aide calls for attention when the General approaches. The staff rise, stand like ramrods until Lee walks to his seat...
Just before they left Moscow, Lucretiu Patrascanu and delegates received the press, confided their plans: "We shall emerge free, democratic and independent. . . . Only through close alliance with the Soviet Union will we be able to rise again...
...North American hurricanes start in the same area. Somewhere in "the doldrums," a generally calm region in the equatorial Atlantic between the Cape Verde Islands and the West Indies, waves of heated air molecules begin to rise from the warm sea. As cooler molecules rush in from the sides to take their place, and the rising air, saturated with ocean vapor, cools off in the upper atmosphere, the air currents move faster & faster. Soon the growing whirlwind, given a counterclockwise spiraling motion by the earth's rotation (it is clockwise in the Southern hemisphere), resembles a vast phonograph record...
...whirling disk begins to move northwest, picking up speed as it goes. Eventually the howling hurricane builds up to a diameter of 300-600 miles, whirls at 75 to 140 m.p.h. The most violent gusts are at its leading edge. Sucking up water from the sea, which may rise 20 feet, the disk roars on at 10 to 50 m.p.h. along the path of least resistance, i.e., in the direction of lowest pressure. In the path over which a northbound vortex passes, the storm first blows from the east, offers a brief lull at its 8-to-10-mile...
...charge went back to sleep. The Russian radio continued to urge Bulgarian peasants to "rise against the ruling clique." The Kremlin observed that Bulgaria would have to earn her way out of her fix. The price: war against Germany...