Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Ground was hard, white-haired, tank-wise Colonel John K. Christmas.* The day was cold and raw; the red Maryland clay was muddy underfoot. Colonel Christmas said that he would let the model speak for itself. Then he turned toward the tank, sulking 400 yards away on a slight rise, and waved his right arm. There was dead quiet for perhaps ten seconds. Then M3 turned loose a horizontal stream of red death, directed towards a silhouette target 900 yards away. From the muzzles of four .30-caliber machine guns spurted bright tracer bullets; from the turret, the shells from...
...King said to his people: "All together, men, women, children of Hellenes, rise up, clench your fists, stand at my side. . . . Forward, sons of Hellas, in the fight for body and soul!" A spokesman said: "Greece will fight on, no matter what odds are thrown against her, because she has a soul which can never be extinguished." And the Yugoslavs sang a sad old song: Dusa Moja-My Soul...
Whatever hope of deliverance lies in the Italian people is quiescent, Correspondent Whitaker thinks. They accept the German occupation "with as much resignation as the eruption of Vesuvius." They are overawed by Germany's military might. But once the Germans are being defeated, they will be ready to rise, he predicts. At night, when an Italian tries to hail a passing taxi (scarce in wartime), he shouts: "Libero? [Are you free?]" In the darkness come answers from people in the street...
Rizzuto's rise to baseball's top crust has been almost as spectacular as his playing. Son of a $20-a-week Manhattan dock worker, he captained his high-school team, was picked up by Yankee Scout Paul Krichell four years ago-after the Dodgers had turned him down because he was too small. He was started off in the Yankees' Class D club in the Bi-State League, progressed rapidly to its Class B club at Norfolk, to its AA club at Kansas City. This spring Yankee Manager Joe McCarthy brought Rizzuto and Priddy...
Language study trend, reported by New York City high schools last week: study of French, long the most popular foreign language, dropped sharply this term (from 63,702 to 55,403 students); Spanish, continuing a recent rise, was up from 37,476 to 40,945, had more beginning students (13,000) than all other languages combined. Also up: Greek (from...