Word: rose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Here's helmets off to the entire Crimson defense, especially Bob Leckie and Jimmy Trainor, who really rose to the occasion. In addition, Jon Schuster and B.C.'s Joe Augustine, who were their usual animal selves...
...continuing cold deepened the nation's energy crisis and increased the already high economic losses (see following story) caused by a winter that could well become the coldest on record in the U.S. The number of states declaring an emergency because of the cold rose to eight* as natural-gas supplies dwindled, electricity consumption remained high and the abnormal weather disrupted crops and commerce...
Powell is notoriously unbeltable. He is used to quick ascents. The child of schoolteachers, he managed to get to Cambridge and became a professor (of Greek) at Australia's University of Sydney when he was only 25. During World War II, he rose from private to brigadier, and he won a seat in Parliament when he was 38. In 1968, in what became known as his "River of Blood" speech, Powell first brought Britain's race question out of the limbo to which other politicians had tacitly consigned it. The Nationality Act, he argued, was flooding London...
That is more than campaign oratory. Indian industrial production in 1976 rose about 11 % over the previous year. Exports are at record levels. Foreign exchange reserves have mounted so high -three times their level of just over a year ago-as to embarrass Indian diplomats who continue to ask international lending agencies for aid. The inflation rate, which hit 26% in 1974, has been tamed. For a while in late 1975 and early 1976, India was one of the few countries where prices, on average, went down; they are rising again now, at an estimated-and manageable-9% a year...
...homosexual lover (Mandy Patinkin) who is desolated, and a stand-up lush of an ex-wife (Patricia Elliott) whose sassy words rain mockery on all. Finally there is a cranky old biddy (Geraldine Fitzgerald) who will not go gently into any night. Her slavishly devoted daughter (Rose Gregorio) fears that all meaning in her own life will slip away with her mother...