Word: rising
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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TIME'S definition of Man of the Year is "the man who had the biggest rise in fame during the year, and who, more than anyone else, changed the news for better or worse...
...year 1947 spotlighted his rise to fame from military genius to the even nobler role of defender of human democracy, and the inspiring plan which bears his name is 1947-8 most effective challenge to the Russian threat of world domination...
...diatribes of Messrs. Hindle and Yates in the Nov. 3 issue of TIME cause one's temperature to rise, until one realizes that such chaps are the unfortunate victims of the beating England took and has taken during and since the war-only to come through unconquered. They should not be held responsible for such mental gyrations...
...bond issue, and last month he signed contracts for a new union railroad station, a score of under-and overpasses, the filling of the now useless canal which bisects the city. If he has his way, slums will be cleared, a new civic center will rise and the whole city will be spanned by super-express highways already designed by New York's equally energetic Park Commissioner Robert Moses. His opponents call Chep "Little Caesar," "Big Head" and "The Kid Mayor," but they have learned to respect his punch and zing...
Billion-Dollar Optimism. Business inventories increased by almost $900 million in September, the Department of Commerce reported, and the value of all goods on hand went up to a record of more than $40 billion. Coming after a decline in July and an August rise of $769 million, September's increase, said Government experts, reflected a resurgence of the optimism that set off last year's inventory boom...