Word: rising
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boomerang. Two days later Labor moved a vote of censure against the government's failure to "prevent the recent substantial and widespread rise in unemployment." With 600,000 jobless in Britain, this seemed a good issue. But Tory Labor Minister Iain Macleod was able to announce a drop in unemployment of 58,-ooo-the biggest decrease in any one month in twelve years. Said he: "The first seven years in opposition are always the most difficult. I cannot help it if every time the Opposition are asked to name their weapons, they pick boomerangs...
...exciting-and profitable-was the ancient art work that Mexicans started collecting, hired peons and Indians to do their digging. Mexican authorities became conscious of their ancient heritage, prohibited the export of valuable art. Result: a new spurt in excavations and the rise of smuggling. As more exotic relics appeared in the U.S.. such art buffs as Nelson Rockefeller, John Huston, Charles Laughton became avid collectors and paid top prices...
...dishonorable intentions toward girls in gingham. They are self-tooting tinhorns who play poker in such a way that it is not a game of chance. "Work," proclaims Maverick, "is a shaky way to make a living," and he firmly believes that "there are times when a man must rise above principles." Maverick Garner, born James Baumgarner in Norman. Okla., fought in Korea, had a bit part in Sayonara. Now 30, Jim looks like a sort of Fred MacMurray with muscles...
...hard," wrote the Harvard Crimson tolerantly, "to view riots in New Haven with the same alarm as those in Nyasaland." The pother at Yale had begun the week before, when a fine fall of late winter snow had coincided with a fettlesome rise of early spring sap. When, at 10 o'clock one night, the Harkness bells clanged out "Bulldog, Bulldog," the results were more or less predictable. Frosh surged out of dormitories like beer from a sprung keg, and began pitching snowballs. Brawlers leaked over locked gates and through classroom buildings into the streets, made a token charge...
...many novice investors who aim for the moon but set a $10 limit on the trip. They shun stocks that sell for more, which means virtually all those on the New York Stock Exchange. They figure, often wrongly, that low-priced stocks are not only the cheapest but will rise the fastest. Thus, they shop around the American Exchange, home of many a budget-priced, volatile issue. (Almost all the exchange's most active stocks last week sold below $4.) Many of the stocks are low because young companies go on the AmEx; its rules for listing are easier...