Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...intervention has always risen after a speech by President Roosevelt. Not so last week. The President spoke ("The shooting has started") and the destroyer Reuben James was also sunk. Interventionist sentiment in the press just held even at 64%. The 20% drop in interventionist sentiment was accompanied by a rise in isolationist sentiment from...
...Army's rise has been meteoric, and yesterday the Crimson's scouts, backfield coach Floyd Stahl and Jayvee mentor Henry Lamar, did everything possible to add lustre to the new light shining in the East. In their regular Monday afternoon meeting with the press they described the Army in terms very similar to those heard before the Dartmouth and Navy invasions, both of which ended to the advantage of Harvard's hitless wonders...
...smooth, Smolensk road-a point which must be approximately the location of the front lines now. The ground is gently rolling, woods interspersed with fields. The defenses are not continuous fortifications, lines of trenches or barricades. They are an almost infinity of strong points. Camouflaged positions are on every rise of ground and on the edge of every woods. And on the roads through the woods, when I was there, were columns of tanks, parked trucks, supplies...
...warriors their face. They recovered after the fall of France; Hitler's western conquests spurred Japanese hotheads to even louder talk about a "Greater East Asia." The Axis Pact of a year ago brought the militarists still more kudos. As if to symbolize the militarists' ten-year rise to power, their greatest single opponent, the Emperor's most respected personal adviser, Elder Statesman Prince Kimmochi Saionji, died at 91. The Army topped off its glorious decade with its Indo-China grab...
...aspirations; Idealistic a happy medium. Thus the Middle Ages was an ideational period, the scientific and rationalistic 19th century a sensate one. Each period, each type of culture carries within itself its own inherent doom,--its tendency to degeneration which will lead to its fall and to the rise and dominance of one of the other types, which also declines, and so on. Just now we are tobogganing down the decline of the last sensate period, which phenomenon is the crisis of our age and the prelude to the ideational period which will follow to save Western civilization...