Word: rose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...account, the aft two-thirds, including the conning tower and the coveted missiles and code room, slipped back to the seabed. The forward third, which remained gripped firmly in the grapnels, was deposited in the still submerged barge. Blowing its water ballast, HMB-1 rose to the surface. Even if only partially successful, as the CIA claims, the mission was a major technological achievement. Nothing so large had ever before been raised from so great a depth...
...billion fourth-quarter deficit, which was more than 50% higher than the third-quarter shortfall, brought to $10.58 billion the total gap for all of 1974.* There were several reasons: U S direct investment abroad rose because restrictions on them were dropped and foreign purchases of U.S. stocks fell because of the bear market. But, worst of all, the Commerce Department's statistics underscored the fact that the nation's bill for petroleum imports soared by $18 billion last year. This more than offset exports of soybeans, jet planes computers and myriad other products...
Wolfe had cooked up an elaborate theory: that the novel rose to success because it was an organ of social realism, and that at its height novelists did real research before writing. But after the Second World War, the novelists dropped the baton and, passing into the ozone of interior landscapes, wrote about nothingness and such. That left the way open for the new journalism, which was a great revival of social realism and had therefore replaced the novel as the dominant literary art form of the modern age. All that was stated; what was implied, of course, was that...
...other four-rounders Billy Duquette dropped a paunchy, sleepy Charlie Rice twice in less than a minute to score a quick TKO, and Tommy Rose took a unanimous decision from Charlie kitredge...
...duty: to wake the town. Silently, he commands, " 'Everyone yawn. Everyone up.' The great house stirred below. 'Grandpa, get your teeth from the water glass!' He waited a decent interval. 'Grandma and Great Grandma, fry hot cakes!' The warm scent of fried batter rose in the drafty hall ... 'Street where all the Old People live, wake up! Miss Helen Loomis, Colonel Freeleigh, Miss Bentley! Cough, get up, take pills, move around! ... The sun began to rise. He folded his arms and smiled a magician's smile. Yes, sir, he thought, everyone jumps...