Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...flying hours; in 1940 only one for every 10,000 hours. From July 1, 1939 to June 30, 1940 the Air Corps had 88 deaths in 46 crashes. From last July 1 to Dec. 1, there were 85 deaths; in January, 19; in February, 28. The rate was rising. And, said General Dargue with sad certainty, it would continue to rise: the country could expect as many as 150 more young men to die in Army crashes by June...
...slick little bastard.' " Next time they threw out Percy Sr. "Wai," said an old man, wet with tobacco juice and furtive-eyed, "the bottom rail's on top and it's gwiner stay thar." That was Percy's "first sight of the rise of the masses, but not my last...
...statements of Cabinet officers, in editorials and Congressional debates. If the U. S. effort still lacked urgency, it was not for lack of warnings. Last week, as Washington bubbled with gloomy rumors, one lesson seemed plain from these warnings of the U. S. peril-the U. S. might rise to a visible opportunity, a felt emergency, but it could not be scared into action from afar...
...mean he plays loud; anybody can do that. What makes you look up is an aggressive attack executed in a tone which by itself is something of a phenomenon. These two elements, combined with musical ideas that no other trombonist over thought of, make his solos actually rise above everything else that happens to be playing. I could go off on a wonderfully inarticulate tangent trying to describe the way Jack plays, so all I'll say is that when you hear it, you'll know that Jack's the boy, because without him his band wouldn...
...Douglas Fairbanks self-admitted horse opera and right now Douglas is probably doing a couple of agile back flips in his grave. Everything about it is weakly done: the acting, the direction, the sets, and the plot. Even George Sanders, of whom much more should be expected, fails to rise to the occasion. He plays the part of a villainous usurper by the name of Gurko who is seeking the throne and the hand of Joan Bennett. Joan, however, knows better and with the help of the second of the Cristo line she foils him in every respect. This fellow...