Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Farley was needled into making a speech assailing the "mental attitude of this young man who would rise to the Presidency by use of the propaganda of expediency." The new, warmer Tom Dewey turned the point neatly. When the Democrats tried to make him out a Prohibitionist, he said: "I'm dry only behind the ears...
...chief sources of revenue (customs, salt taxes, seaboard factory profits). China has financed its war partly by greatly increased currency circulation. On top of this, the war has brought acute shortages in the basic fields of food, clothing and transportation, and also in most luxuries. Once prices began to rise, the Government let them rise for revenue, and presently they skyrocketed...
...Lincoln's: "The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. Fellow citizens, we cannot escape history...
...Oldaker cannot bring himself to marry ex-Madam Tacey. When the respectable ladies of Bisbee discover Tacey's history and unmarried status, they furiously confiscate Nugget and Seely, settle them in respectable Bisbee homes. Lover Gaye is too weak to fight for his "family," too ambitious not to rise to the top in Arizona politics once he has discarded the unpopular Tacey. The ironic result of the family split is that young Seely suffers torments in the strange hands of "nice" people, grows up to be virtually a high-class prostitute. At the end of the book Nugget, Seely...
Standish's House of Fureno begins to rise through the prodigious exertions of Tenjo Fureno, sent by his samurai father to learn the secrets of the Western powers. In no time at all, Tenjo pumps an English missionary and a Scottish banker of everything they know, shocks the living daylights out of the missionary by unChristian, erotic behavior, hoodwinks a London shipping magnate, absorbs the lesson that finance and industry must be the sword of the new samurai. Small Tenjo also satisfies his hatred of white men-subtly by conquering a blonde and violently by beating...