Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Army of 677,000 men, a Navy of 731 ships and 527,000 men, and a $600 million universal military training program. The President, well aware of the fact that the 80th Congress authorized a 70-group Air Force, warned: "Expenditures for national defense can be expected to rise substantially [in 1951] above the level estimated...
...such .sidelines as speedometers, and discontinued cheap watches, to concentrate on expensive timepieces. Furthermore, his plant-like many in New England-was old and inefficient; his workers had had their wages almost tripled in seven years (78% of the cost of a watch is in labor), without a rise in productivity to make...
...would Hogan have fared against golf's greatest amateur, Bobby Jones? Says Ben Hogan himself: "If Jones were around today, he'd be a champion. He'd rise to the competition." One thing they have in common is that both made golfing history. Jones did it in 1930 with his "Grand Slam" (British Amateur, British Open, U.S. Open and U.S. Amateur). In 1948, Hogan became the first golfer ever to win the U.S. Open, the P.G.A. championship and the Western Open in the same year. He was also golf's top official money winner (with...
...greatly the distinctive characteristics of nations change with the centuries. Fifteenth Century Italians were clean, reserved, austere: they were shocked by the filth of the Germans. Erasmus was bowled over by the vulgar English tendency to display passion and emotion in public. On the other hand, while skirts rise and fall and puffed knee breeches slowly work their way into peg-top trousers, many surprising similarities exist between far-separated cultures. The woman in the Greek wedding procession, bowling along in her chariot, might almost be on the way back from buying a work dress in a country store...
...made was to repatriate the 10,000 Japanese technicians who had run Korea for the 43 years of their occupation. A scant 3,000 Americans had to take over their positions and begin training 7,000 Koreans for administration, for the Japanese had never permitted natives to rise above the rank of clerk or shopkeeper...