Word: risings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Annie Sullivan, besides sheer physical stamina, is an extraordinary talent for observation, an ear and an eye for the small, significant detail that transforms mimicry into understanding. So the coarse, curbside intonations of The Bronx were erased with intuitive skill at the flare of a footlight and the rise of a curtain. Seesaw's Gittel spoke with an inflection that convinced thousands of theatergoers that the actress must be Jewish ("I didn't even know what a Jew was until I was grown up," says Anne Bancroft). As Annie Sullivan, Actress Bancroft erases her Italian heritage so completely...
Dormant Danger. But even moderate regular smoking went with a startling rise in the chart for atypical cells: for men who smoked less than half a pack daily, it soared to 90.6% of the slides. In the half-pack to one-pack bracket, it was 97%; for one to two packs, 99.3%; more than two packs, 99.6%; and in lung cancer victims...
...MORE FILMS will be produced in Hollywood in 1960 because of rise in theater attendance...
...CONSTRUCTION will hold steady, the Department of Commerce forecasts. Construction dollar outlays will rise by 2% to $55.3 billion, but the increase will be because of higher prices...
...announcement evoked harsh comment from the executive committee of Columbia's student council, which issued a statement that it is "unalterably opposed to the manner in which the proposed tuition rise was presented to the student body...