Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...hard white uniform. It surprised him when he saw a black pipe stuck in the crook of his arm and a slow red flow into the bottle. "Open and close your fist," she said, "it acts as a pump. Vag pumped, and turned to watch the red line rise with each motion of his hand. He stared at the white ceiling. Open, close; open, close; "The human body has about fifteen pints of blood," he heard the Bio D man say; open, close, pump. The nurse called him. The pipe was gone and she waved the bottle of deep...
Once that the dough for bread has been prepared it is removed to the "profing room" where it sits in great tubs to rise. Steam jets keep the air of the room warm and moist for the difficult and delicate process. Leaves are prepared for the even either by rough shaping as in the case of French bread or by placing in pans; rolls are cut to size on a special machine...
...lover of things nautical and of sailing ships in particular, I rise in protest against your description of the Gertrude L. Thebaut as a "full-rigged schooner" [TIME, Dec. 14]. Webster defines full-rigged as "having three or more masts, each with its full complement of square sails." As a schooner is fore-and-aft-rigged it could not conform to the requirements of this definition. A full-rigged schooner would be as anomalous as a two-legged centipede...
...annual event. The choice is in no way an accolade or a Nobel Prize for doing good. Nor is it a moral judgment. (Al Capone came close to being runner-up in riotous, bootleg 1928). The two criteria for the choice are always these: Who had the biggest rise in fame; and who did most to change the news for better (like Stalin this year) or for worse (like Stalin in 1939, when his flop to Hitler's side unleashed this worldwide...
...October Britain's Medical Research Council Committee on Tuberculosis in Wartime blamed unsafe milk for part of the 45% rise in deaths of British children under ten from tuberculosis...