Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...boldly conceived to be dismantled arch by arch and beam after beam. It must stand or crash . . . The English at present are sleeping as a sailor sleeps after a storm, cast up on the beach, in the sun. But in their dreams they know . . . they will have to rise and go forth . . . One of the great epics of the world is to be played out before us, and played...
This week, as another autumn moon lit up the traditional festival, Generalissimo Chiang Kai-shek summoned his countrymen to rise against another kind of Tartar in the national household. "We should understand," he cried in a broadcast to the people, "that in addition to the treacherous rebels who are rampant today, speculation, manipulation and high living to the point of lasciviousness on the part of social parasites in our midst are also to blame for our crisis ... It is my intention to wash away these social dregs by opening the floodgates of public conscience and social justice...
Time has been unkind to the gold towns of Minas Geraes. Their old wealth is long since gone; the red dust of Minas cakes their half-deserted streets. But Aleijadinho's heroic monuments remain. Each year in mid-September, Mineiros rise from their huts and hamlets and journey by foot, by truck and by train over the scarred hills to the shrine-church of Congonhas do Campo. Last week, as they had for a century and a half, some 200,000 Brazilian peasants made the pilgrimage to kiss the sacred image of the Dead Christ in Aleijadinho...
Hugh Dalton, who draws down $20,000 a year as Britain's Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster (a cabinet sinecure), made a major concession to the harsh facts of modern British life: "because of the rise in the cost of living" he swore off cigarettes* (he had been smoking two packs a day, at 70? a pack...
...their troubles. Since 1921, he said, no new textile mill has been built in New England and the number of its spindles has been cut more than 75% to 5,000,000. More than a year ago, Little had warned that the plant's output would have to rise but it remained...