Word: rose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...country music and yellowjackets, to meet broadside the combine of an early-morning farmer who was pulling it across the road. The Mercury, little more than engine and gasoline and mason jars full of 145-proof alcohol, immediately ignited. People down in the valley whose bedrooms faced the hillside rose, wiping sleep from their eyes and wondering at the false dawn. The Baptist congregations got a cheap and predictable sermon on the wages of sin, and Bell's uncle got a beatendown truck, also cheap, from the cracker speedfreak's daddy...
...catching up to the rest of U.S. industry in the post-recession drive toward profits. Government data last week showed second-quarter earnings of more than 500 major companies up an average of 33%, about what most economists had expected. The unquestioned star: General Motors Corp., whose earnings rose 273% during the period, to $909 million, a company record for any quarter. Car and truck sales were up 34%, and company officials stood by their earlier prediction that U.S. car sales, including imports, would total at least 10.5 million units this year, up 22% from last year and only slightly...
...advanced to the point where what happened to the patient all too often depended on who saw him first. "Free market" medicine resulted in a gross geographic and functional maldistribution of doctors. There developed a severe oversupply of specialists in some areas (surgery, where work weeks declined as fees rose) and an undersupply in others (pediatric psychiatry and general practice). The g.p. declined from 64% of the total number of doctors in 1949 to 13% in 1973. Meanwhile, the number of graduates of foreign medical schools practicing in the U.S. increased from 20,575, or 8.6% of the total...
Acute, curative, technology-dependent medicine reached its apogee in the 1960s-and, as expectations rose, so did the costs. The expense of medical care had reached a critical stage with the Depression of 1929-32, when individuals found it increasingly difficult to pay their medical bills. The private sector in the 1930s developed the Blue Cross-Blue Shield insurance system of prepayment for hospitals and physicians. In the public sector, the Social Security mechanism and general tax revenues were used to pay the costs of the indigent sick, the disabled, the elderly and such special groups as veterans, migrant farmers...
...George III. That a colonial could bring off such a feat was regarded as singular. It turned him into a precocious father figure for later Yankee expatriates, notably Copley and Stuart. Here was their lesson in making it: the teen-age limner who, thanks to Rome and practical ambition, rose to become the second president of the Royal Academy. In fact, West was by temperament an ideal official artist: studious, methodical, competent, a bovine draftsman. But his neoclassical work, done under the first impact of Naples and Rome, is another matter: the small sketch for West's first classical...