Word: rose
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...rose from a $90-per-week bank teller to millionaire bank president, Bert Lance never forgot his friends−or his poor relations. Between 1963 and 1974, while he was president of the First National Bank in Calhoun, Ga. (pop. 6,000), he arranged five loans totaling about $140,000 for his unemployed mother-in-law, Ruth M. Chance. When the interest payments were due, Lance sometimes wrote checks on her overdrawn Calhoun account to make the payments. He also arranged loans, and made similar repayments, for three brothers-in-law: a total of $57,982 to retired Naval Officer...
...also knew that he had to resign. Instead of breaking the news himself, he called in his secretary, Rose Mary Woods, and had her tell his family. When his sons-in-law, Edward Cox and David Eisenhower, argued the case for delaying his decision at least for a few days, Nixon recalls, "I said that this was just like a Greek tragedy: you could not end it in the middle of the second act or the crowd would throw chairs at the stage. In other words, the tragedy had to be seen through until the end as fate would have...
...leaders at a time when the winds of democratic expression and dissent were blowing through the more liberal and independent Communist parties in Italy and Spain. When a party stalwart at one cell meeting in Paris started to pin the election disaster on the Socialists, a disbelieving listener suddenly rose to declare: "It is scandalous that comrades cannot express themselves here." That outburst triggered much more complaining about party policy...
...telephone contacts occured only a short time after Townley arrived in the U.S. with an official passport falsely identifying him as Juan Williams Rose. He entered the country with Armando Fernandez Larios, a Chilean army captain whose official passport identified him as Alejandro Romeral Jara...
...later, Mr. B set Gelsey the stringent task of dancing Theme and Variations. He made his earlier version even more intricate and Gelsey rose to the challenge. But the strain on her overtaxed system was considerable. She developed tendinitis and began thinking the unthinkable: "I love dancing more than anything in the world, but I cannot dance with this pain...