Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...word "secretly" might give rise to the inference that I acted without the knowledge of my clients . . . It was with the full knowledge and unqualified approval of Mr. Hiss that I brought these papers to the attention of the Department of Justice, after first having notified counsel for Mr. Chambers of my intention to do so and after having obtained the approval of Judge Chesnut...
...eight months, as chief U.S. prosecutor at the Nürnberg trials, Robert H. Jackson, Associate Justice of the U.S. Supreme Court, had listened to Nazi bigwigs trace the rise & fall of Hitlerism. The big lesson of Nürnberg, he told a New York lawyers' meeting last week, was that Hitler doomed himself when he exiled scientists, suppressed information and halted intellectual progress. Why not, asked Jackson, in effect, let the Russians, who are making the same mistake, wither in their own stupidity? Said...
Rakosi's speech also jolted the industrial workers. Their standard of living had been rising. Rakosi pointed out that the coming five-year plan would require capital goods. Said he: ". . . we cannot continue with such a speedy rise in the standard of living...
...billings from $46 million in 1946 to a 1948 rate of more than $50 million. Last week in Manhattan, at 32, Marion Harper was made president as Founder H. K. McCann, 68, moved up to board chairman. Said an awed agency director, in summarizing Harper's rise: "He energizes people . . . he's got so much energy himself. The agency has never had such good teamwork before...
...autobiographical account of a worldly young pagan's conversion to Roman Catholicism, in Seven Storey Mountain. And, in a category all its own, there was Alfred Kinsey's Sexual Behavior in the Human Male, which was a continuing bestseller in spite of its statistical dullness, and gave rise to more bad jokes and pseudoscientific claptrap than any book in recent years...