Word: rose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...African attacking the people who had pointed out inconsistencies in the backing of the Popular Movement for the Liberation of Angola, both of which drew applause. Or the persistent tom-toms (to borrow a phrase from the African Youth Movement) of the Spartacus Youth League which time and again rose to attack the MPLA for its stance on workers' movements, and who were, at last, hissed back into their seats by more ardent MPLA supporters...
Great Britain's Princess Anne dresses like "a royal auto mechanic." Rockmaster Elton John "would be the campiest spectacle in the Rose Parade if he entered." Singer Bette Midler seems unaware that "pantaloons went out with hoop skirts." So says Hollywood Designer Richard Blackwell, 53, in his 16th annual "worst-dressed" list. Blackwell, who named Jacqueline Onassis among the worst-dressed women of 1971, gave the top award this year to Daughter Caroline Kennedy, 18. She looks like "a shaggy dog in pants," snipped Blackwell, adding, "Who says bad taste isn't inherited...
...forecasting the severity of the recession that followed. Then in December 1974, while the economy was plunging toward the bottom of the slump, the market began to turn upward smartly, anticipating the recovery that began last spring. During 1975, prices of shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange rose 38.7%, the second largest increase since World War II, though most of the advance occurred early in the year...
Franco cannot be blamed for the recession that has engulfed Spain along with the rest of the industrialized world, but he had no program to combat it. Investment in industry fell 10% last year, and by official estimate national production rose a bare 1% (by some outside estimates it declined 1%). About 700,000 Spanish workers, or 5.4% of the labor force, are jobless. Another 8% or so have had to seek work abroad, and other European countries are now telling their "guest workers" to go home. Rising oil prices have exacerbated Spain's already unhealthy payments deficit. Pressure...
...number of black applicants to the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences rose about 10 per cent this year, from 91 to about 100 applicants, reversing last year's 32-per-cent decline, Peter S. McKinney, administrative dean of the GSAS, said Friday...