Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...howl of their engines rolled down the peninsula. The men on the ground could hear the crump of bombs, the clatter of .50-caliber guns. From the mountaintops, outposts saw the P-40s whip up from the attack, roll over, dive again & again. Then smoke began to rise, great billowing clouds of it, and they saw the tiny specks in the sky grow into the shapes of airplanes as the raiders headed home...
...Indian Army, recruited as fast as equipment can be provided, has jumped from 170,000 to 1,000,000 since 1939. And despite the Congress' political views, many party leaders have plunged into civil defense, supply and morale activities. In short, the British case holds that India would rise to meet a Japanese attack, far more unitedly under British rule than it could during the internal struggle for political control that would arise between its own factions if independence were suddenly granted...
...rise through the land...
Probably only a small percentage of them are inspired by the Axis, Knapp said. The majority of them rise from the frustration of a people who are determined to fight a war with all possible effectiveness, but have not the material, at the present time, to take as active a part as they would like...
...first appointment in the Medical School was in 1925, and a rapid rise through instructor in medicine, assistant professor, and associate professor was climaxed by his appointment as Hersey Professor of the Theory and Practice of Physics...