Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...High. Consumer credit, the Federal Reserve Board reported, rose 1.5% in May to a new high of $13.8 billion. This was chiefly due to a rise of $220 million in installment credit ($89 million of it on autos alone) to a record $6,957 million...
Shirtsleeves & Galluses. The jumbled roaring which came through the loudspeakers boomed so loudly and with such a passionate rise & fall of voice that it was applauded as if it were an announcement of the final collapse of the Soviet Union. Of the men & women who made purely partisan speeches, Columnist Lippmann wrote: "Never did they admit that they had ever been wrong, less than wise, less than the only true defenders of the faith, or that one trace of humility or magnanimity could be allowed to mitigate their absolute self-righteousness...
Hopeful Future. The new technique has obvious advantages. Because the "heavy" anesthetic is heavier than the spinal fluid, doctors can control its rise in the spine by gravity (by tilting the delivery table until the proper areas are anesthetized). In conventional spinal anesthesia, the anesthetic may rise too far and stop the patient's breathing. Usually only one injection is necessary. It acts quickly (in one to ten minutes), and relief from pain lasts from two to four hours. The patient is so comfortable that, when labor is long, she can eat, drink or smoke...
...shares belonged to the late Jules S. Bache, longtime Dome Mines president. Michel, trustee of the estate, had sold the stock to pay estate taxes. He had not foreseen the dividend slash (it was forced by a rise in Canada's cost-of-living index, to which the company's wage scale is tied). Obviously, said Michel, after what had happened the decent thing was to take back the stock. That was just what he had done...
From the fall of France on through World War II, Winston Churchill was a symbol of the reserve strength of the democratic world. He was the living proof of its power to rise above defeat, of its courage, its humor and its ability to produce better and more intelligent citizens than the fanatics who were trained under other systems. For all his great public reputation, he was the embodiment of the unknown quantity in world politics, the something that exists in addition to all the figures on aircraft, combat divisions, tanks, factories and naval vessels...