Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Lincoln's pew. ¶ Sir Cecil Spring Rice (1913-18), the World War I Ambassador, so supercautious that he dared make only one public speech in his five years in the U.S. ¶ Rufus Isaacs, Lord Reading (1918-19), the fabulous genius of finance and the law who rose from cabin boy to England's Lord Chief Justice and Viceroy of India. Before he became Ambassador Lord Reading had served his country well in the U.S. The story goes that he asked the House of Morgan for a billion dollars in war credits. "I'll give...
Slivovitz with Photostat. Rajk testified that in 1931, when he was 22, he had signed a paper enlisting in Horthy's secret police, then run by Dr. Peter Hetenyi. Thereafter, as he rose in the Communist Party which he was supposed to destroy, this paper dogged him. Apparently everybody except the Communists had a copy of it. According to Rajk, the French Deuxieme Bureau, the Gestapo and U.S. Intelligence all used the paper to blackmail Rajk into serving them...
...seconds the Viking rose properly, leaving a trail of white vapor that twisted with the wind. Then the fuel stopped burning, prematurely. When its fire went out, the rocket was 10.5 miles up and rising at 1,775 m.p.h. Coasting upward on momentum, it reached an altitude of 33 miles and started down again...
...seconds later, a radio signal from the control room exploded a small charge and blew off the rocket's nose. Unstream-lined by separation, the parts tumbled over & over. As they fell toward the earth, observers saw silvery flashes of sunlight reflected from aluminum. Dust rose from the desert, and back from eight miles away came a muffled sound of an alcohol-oxygen explosion...
...fact that industrial production and employment were again rising swiftly. The Bureau of the Census reported that its Aug. 13 survey showed the sharpest monthly rise in non-farm jobs (1,368,000) in years, more than enough to offset the seasonal drop in farm employment. Total U.S. employment rose to 59,947,000, the highest so far this year, while the number of jobless fell from 4,095,000 to 3,689,000. Secretary of Labor Maurice J. Tobin thought the rise had continued into September's first week, when unemployment compensation claims again declined...