Word: rose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...escapes, such as the two men who stowed away in the landing gear of a plane flying to Spain. (One of them fell out during the journey but the other arrived eight hours later, half-frozen.) The case that the book builds is guilt by association: the Cuban revolution rose out of a tradition of violence and has perpetuated...
...most destructive earthquakes ever to hit the Western Hemisphere (TIME, Feb. 16). Last week the terrible toll continued to climb as new victims were found-nearly 19,000 dead, 66,000 wounded, at least 1,000,000 homeless.* Amid the miasma of death, new clouds of dust rose from 800 smaller aftershocks that continued to frighten the country; nonetheless, Guatemalans cleared away rubble to make way for rebuilding. Optimists even talked about a revival of the lucrative tourist trade, which provides Guatemala with $85 million a year in foreign exchange...
Whatever the reason, though, black applications rose from last year's 91 to this year's conservative estimate of 140 (applications are still coming in), and Spanish-American applications more than doubled, from last year's 38 to this year...
...marketing and promotion side, ads for such periodicals as the Columbia Journalism Review, The New Republic, The Nation, and Washington Monthly began to appear in the HPR, in exchange for free space in those publications for HPR ads. The number of subscriptions rose from only 20 under the old format to over 200 by February 1976. The staff sent out the large donor packets and waited...
Black applications to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences rose 55 per cent this year from 90 to about 140 applicants, Peter S. McKinney, administrative dean of the GSAS, said yesterday...