Word: rose
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...rose ever so slowly over the lunar Ocean of Storms, the spidery, three-legged newcomer hesitantly extended and flexed its aluminum, accordion-like arm. Then, reassured that the numbing cold of its flight through space had done no harm, it reached down and pressed its steel-tipped claw into the moon's surface, leaving a small dent. Opening its claw, it deliberately gouged a small trench near its feet, curiously watching each movement to determine the nature of the lunar soil. Thus last week Surveyor 3 became the second U.S. spacecraft to achieve a successful lunar soft landing...
...birds were singing, the trees were budding, and the floriated rhetoric of Senate Minority Leader Everett McKinley Dirksen, 71, was in full bloom. "It is as sprightly as the daffodil, as colorful as the rose, as resolute as the zinnia, as delicate as the carnation, as aggressive as the petunia, as ubiquitous as the violet and as stately as the snapdragon," hymned Evin his Hammond Organ voice. "It beguiles the senses and ennobles the spirit of man." With that he continued his perennial crusade by presenting to the Senate his annual resolution asking that the marigold be designated...
...were quick to blame the poor G.N.P. showing on the high, but not dangerous, inventories. Unlike 1961, when they had to be liquidated with a loss, the current stock piles are being gradually sold off. Mean while, unemployment is a small 3.6% of the labor force, and industrial production rose in March to end a two-month decline. Certain that the mood represented by rising sales would continue on into summer, Washington economists reaffirmed the forecast they made in January. After a slow first half, they said confidently, 1967 will end with a strong second-half finish...
...full employment. Saddled with such restraints, Britons quickly became uncommonly economy-conscious. And they listened with uncommon attention last week when Chancellor of the Exchequer James Callaghan, with a rosebud in his lapel and a glass of orange squash close by to fuel him through a 36-page speech, rose in Commons to present the fiscal '68 budget...
...government expected of them, namely restoring our fortunes abroad while giving us an uncomfortable time at home. The freeze and squeeze have been worth it." The trade deficit, reported the Chancellor, dropped from $126 million a month in 1964 to $32.2 million a month last year, as exports rose 14%. Britain's baiance-of-payments deficit eased from $974 million to $529 million as funds flowed in. As a result, Britain will be able to pay off debts amounting to $896 million that it owes the International Monetary Fund and foreign banks-probably before the December due date. Even...