Word: risings
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Residence Office reported that at last count, 48 of next year's approximately 300 seniors had requested to move into apartments. They expect this figure to rise to 60 or 80 by the June 1 deadline...
...community sport, the white racists who still kill Negroes are now increasingly prosecuted and punished. In three decades, the U.S. incidence of murder and robbery has decreased relative to the population by 30%. Says Sociologist Marvin Wolfgang, president of the American Society of Criminology: "Contrary to the rise in public fear, crimes of violence are not significantly increasing...
...equipment spending, was stronger in the first quarter than Government economists had expected. Housing starts, at their 1,500,000-a-year February rate, have risen 35% from last year's low. Retail sales, which climbed for the third straight month during March, were propelled by a significant rise in consumer spending...
...wild trip even when they are on the ground. To make matters worse, travelers in Africa are usually aware that the line's 30,000-mile network covers some of the world's roughest terrain, including bush runways plagued with mud and giant anthills that can rise up between flights. Yet for all its drawbacks, E.A.A. is one of the world's most successful airlines...
Romney's sudden obsolescence-together with that of at least three Romney campaign biographies-is only one instance of the perils of hard-cover handicapping. Until recently, writers and publishers had all but forgotten Hubert Humphrey, except for an anti-H.H.H. tract entitled The Rise and Fall of a Liberal. They had virtually overlooked Nelson Rockefeller and Richard Nixon. Bookmen had also underrated Eugene McCarthy, who perspicaciously published a collection of his own views last fall. But they hardly ignored Bobby Kennedy, who has been the subject of about one book a month in the past...