Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...needs: trucks, small bombs, radar, heavy artillery ammunition. In all, he listed shortages in 320 vital categories. General Somervell was angry. He shouted: "If we are going to keep down the cost in American life, then the cost in labor and effort for everyone back here must continue to rise until it strikes its high point at midnight on the day before the enemy's final collapse...
...well be that the Russian successes have been somewhat aided by the strategy of Corporal Hitler. Even military idiots find it difficult not to see some faults in some of his actions. ... On the whole I think it is better for officers to rise in the proper...
...early in bed and later on life down through all Christian minstrelsy." Old Parr, Campbell and Robinson explain, was the grand old man of Shropshire who finally trembled into his grave at the age of 152 (1483-1635). Parr and wallstrait are puns ("par" and "Wall Street") on the rise & fall of stockmarket values. The immense polysyllable that fol lows the word "fall" is the voice of God's wrath over the fall of man, the crash of Finnegan from the ladder, and the thunder clap that inaugurates a new period of history...
Durham's City Councillors had approved the plant. As blueprinted, it would rise above the River Wear 300 yards from the city line. Its smokestacks and cooling apparatus would undoubtedly smear the cross-river view of the cathedral's square-towered majesty. Stiffening his sinews, summoning up his blood, Dean Alington cried: "This proposed erection is an outrage. I shall fight it with all my power...
...dwellings are responsible for sky-high prices. But the would-be homeowner wants a home for his family, whatever the cost. During the first half of 1944, average prices for all types of real estate were 12½% above the 1943 level, with some industrial areas reporting a wartime rise in private dwellings of 54% and up. For example, one Los Angeles house that sold in 1942 for $7,850 brought $15,500 last winter. In Pittsburgh a man bought a new house for $10,000 last summer, sold it six months later...