Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...attack began with a commando landing on the Hyères Islands off Cap Bénat-where the now sunken French fleet used to take its exercise on sunny days. A few hours later more parachutists and gliders landed beyond the Monts des Maures -the Moorish Mountains-that rise between Toulon and Saint-Raphael...
First he issued a warning: the U.S. must avoid a sudden rise of prices such as occurred in the spring of 1919 after price controls were lifted but before enough goods had been produced to satisfy public demand. He promised therefore that after Germany's fall, when reconversion commences, OPA will...
...includes an account of labor's struggle for recognition ; a Socialist's eye view of New York politics over the past quarter-century; a sketchy but sometimes revealing gallery of such radical and liberal greats as Leon Trotsky, Eugene Debs, Norman Thomas; an intimate history of the rise and fall of the Socialist Party. But above all, it is an old Socialist's insistent, desperate warning against Communism as the No. 1 despoiler of the democratic ideal...
...Beards saw U.S. history in a new perspective, felt a fresh enthusiasm for writing it. On the ship coming back they sketched the outline on big pieces of foolscap. In the twin studies of their new Milford home, looking out on the rolling Connecticut hills, they wrote The Rise of American Civilization, America in Midpassage, and The American Spirit - four volumes that told and interpreted the whole story in 3,362 lucid pages...
...account of the U.S. past ever interested - or upset - so many U.S. citizens. In the same year as The Rise (1927) Vernon Louis Parrington published his pioneering Main Currents in American Thought (which shows the Beardian in fluence on every page) and was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for it. Said Mrs. Parrington: "They had to give the prize to one or the other of them, and I guess Vernon's book is less disturbing...