Word: rose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Sunday, January 9, the Rose Bowl will receive more attention than the reading for Gov 20. Reading period will break down; motion all over the country will slow to a halt. Super Bowl XI will gain control...
Before the Yale game, at the final team dinner of the season, when Puopolo rose to make his statement to the team, as is the custom for each senior, he said that winning the Yale game would be for him merely frosting on the cake. The cake itself, he said, was simply playing on the team. From someone else it might have been no more than a lofty phrase, a platitude. But for Andy Puopolo, as anyone who knew him could testify, it was the simple truth...
...French press called it a consecration. Critics on the French left compared the rally to pro-fascist, personality cult mass meetings. And there were resemblances. When Chirac rose to greet the throng, none of the other leaders of the old DRU party shared the podium with him. When the crowd broke in the afternoon to "elect" a chief for the new movement in voting booths thrown up around the fairground, the electors were presented with only three choices--"for" Chirac, "against" Chirac, or "abstain." One spectator, questioned by a New York Times reporter about the angry but obedient mood...
...economy and its impact on the overall price structure have been shrinking. The metal has lost a large share of its markets to other materials-aluminum in beer cans and some auto bumpers, and plastics for many refrigerator parts, for example. Between 1950 and 1975, total industrial production rose 260%, steel output only 120% (see chart). Services have grown vastly in importance in the modern economy; an increase in auto-insurance rates can push up the cost of owning a car much more than the price of the steel going into that...
...growing struggle with the Jewish religious leaders over his reinterpretations of the law and his personal claims of authority. The result was the sentence to the cross. Küng is perplexed by the Gospel accounts of the resurrection, but, he says, the apostles' belief that Jesus rose from the grave has transfigured subsequent civilizations. "It means a brave life, undertaken by innumerable people, without fear even in the face of fatal risks: through struggle, suffering, death, in firm trust and hope in the goal of true freedom, love, humanity, eternal life...