Word: risings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...lived in Stiles College, a new house made of sombre, irregularly shaped stone towers that rise in fierce and jagged incongruity with the lacy elegance of the rest of Yale's gothic structures...
...unsolved problems pile up and inevitably produce catastrophes at regular intervals. The Italians always see the next one approaching with a clear eye, but like sleepers in a nightmare, cannot do anything to ward it off . . . They console themselves with the thought that, when the smoke clears, Italy can rise again like a phoenix from its ashes. Has she not always done...
...story traces Maddox's rise to Governor from small-time proprietor of the Pickrick fried chicken chain ("Happy white folks at my tables, happy nigras in my kitchen"), his successful bid for the presidency in 1973, and his war against Russia, in which he personally exterminates everybody but himself-even his pal, God, whose place he is only too happy to fill...
...packed the kids off for tours of the city's museums, galleries and exhibit halls. There were cram courses in basic subjects on both educational and commercial television. Despite the potential for mischief in so prolonged a period of youthful idleness, police reported that there was no significant rise in juvenile delinquency. A feeling expressed on both sides was that it was the kids who, by their restrained conduct, showed themselves to be the real heroes of the strike...
...came from the Federal Trade Commission, which concluded in a 205-page report: "Service retains the status of a 'necessary evil' in much of the automobile business." The report, which will lead to full-scale hearings on warranties in January, makes clear that as sales continue to rise service can only become more necessary-and more evil...