Word: risings
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the Communists made the 6,000-mile "Long March" from southern Kiangsi to Yenan in 1934-35, Liu Shao-chi remained in Kuomintang territory as a Red agent. Summoned to Yenan in 1942 he began his rise to the top levels of the party reportedly as personal secretary to Mao Tse-tung, and as an expert in "indoctrination methods," meaning brainwashing...
...some honors courses. And there will be few if any finishing-school touches. Kent's famed "selfhelp" system-which allows the school to save $100,000 a year on maintenance and scale tuition to a boy's means-will apply to the girls too. They will rise at 6:05, make their beds, sweep dormitories and classrooms, wash dishes and mow lawns. The one concession to femininity so far: for arriving at breakfast after 6:45 a.m., the girls may get less strenuous punishment than the boys' fast "jog around the triangle...
There is a growing feeling at Treasury and at the Federal Reserve Board that the 4¼% limit will have to be raised by Congress, even though economists and businessmen worry that raising the rate would cause a general rise in long-term rates and tighten money enough to choke off gains in business. Finding a solution to the Treasury's problems cannot wait much longer. In July the Treasury will have to borrow additional billions. A sudden sharp contraction in the stock market might conceivably cause a shift back into bonds, but nobody regards that as a real...
...that was expected to repeat the chamber's traditionally liberal view of foreign trade, plumping for reduction of tariffs and elimination of quotas. Only a week before, four Congressmen at the biennial meeting of the International Chamber of Commerce in Washington had warned that protectionism is on the rise in the U.S. Now a group of chamber members set out to prove it. Representing the rope, bicycle, textile, brass and copper industries, all hard hit by foreign competition, they huddled at a Washington hotel and agreed to apply some skillful pressure to weaken the chamber's free-trade...
...swimming pools today make up one of the splashiest sectors of the nation's leisure market. This year alone, of the 70,000 swimming pools to be built at a cost of $750 million, 46,000 will be private pools, and the total in the nation will rise to more than...