Word: rose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...growing success of women in U.S. politics is particularly apparent at the state legislature level. According to one compilation, the number of women state legislators increased from 305 in 1969 and 470 in the past year to 587 as of last week. The women in the Georgia legislature rose from two to nine; in Colorado, from ten to 17; in Maryland, from eleven to 19; and in Hawaii, from four to ten. The results are obvious to anyone familiar with a U.S. statehouse. Four years ago, for example, the spittoons were removed from the Maine Senate chamber; a women...
...first rose in the fertile imagination of Martin Umansky, 58, KAKE's president and general manager. A New Yorker who has been a fixture in Wichita since he became a radio newsman there 34 years ago, Umansky has propelled KAKE to top ratings among Wichita's TV stations. He enjoys exposes (unhygienic restaurants and price fixing by pharmacies have been among KAKE's targets) and has long believed that Wichita's papers lack zeal...
...musician until he was 14 -when he asked his parents' permission to go to New York. There ahead of him were two of his older sisters: Kyung-Wha had studied at Juilliard and was a pupil of Ivan Galamian, and Myung-Wha was a pupil of first Leonard Rose and then Gregor Piatigorsky. Myung-Whun was attracted by the more personal, less competitive atmosphere of the smaller Marines College of Music and apprenticed himself to Pianist Nadia Reisenberg and recently also to Conductor Carl Bamberger...
...floor because the course had been oversubscribed. At the University of Texas, a new journalism building is so crowded that instructors have to share already cramped office space. To discourage applications, the University of Missouri's bulging journalism school this year raised its entrance requirements; applications rose 25% anyway...
...Harvard rose to the challenge of one-upsmanship, and when it got the ball, Holt and company went right to work. Milt hit McInally with a 15-yard pass, to get the Crimson ball rolling. Alternating runs and passes, Harvard bulldozed its way to the Princeton ten. There, a beautiful Holt-Pete Curtin combination made it 13-7 at the end of the first period...