Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...church's liberal wing have split off from the rest of the clergy and, in defiance of stiff laws, helped organize labor syndicates, defended student rights and sharp ened public feeling against the country's army. But last week the Brazilian clergy, liberal and conservative alike, angrily rose up in unison. It issued a warning that it would take no nonsense from the army and, moreover, that it intended to exert its influence on the course of government policy...
Mezzo-soprano Mary Devenport was a disappointment. Her German was garbled and her voice murky, sounding more and more constricted as it rose in pitch. Her singing was four-square and monotonous, and she had the deplorable habit of sliding from high to low notes. The best one can say for her is that she has a fairly rich and well-controlled lower register...
Like the Truman of 1948, Johnson is doing badly in the popularity polls. Last week, while his Gallup rating rose for the first time in five months, he still drew approval from only 41% of the nation. And even though Johnson's prospects are likely to improve once the Republican Party fields a candidate who must then stake out positions on controversial, vote-losing issues, a new and intriguing factor entered the 1968 equation last week...
When James Callaghan rose in the House of Commons two weeks ago after announcing that Britain had devalued the pound, a Tory frontbencher shouted: "The Chancellor is an honor able man. Will he resign?" Last week Callaghan resigned as Chancellor of the Exchequer. Harold Wilson moved him over to the Home Office and replaced him at the Treasury with Home Secretary Roy Jenkins, 48, a tough but suave economist who may be one of the few Laborites to gain from the par ty's recent embarrassments - provided that he can help extricate Britain from its present economic morass...
...discount scheme was originated as a way of building up France's foreign-currency reserves, but the Finance Ministry had long been uneasy at a loss of some $40 million in uncollected sales taxes over the discount's 13-year history. Cries for a crackdown rose this year, when the ministry discovered that as much as $20 million of the tax loss has been the result of some local larceny. Shopkeepers have been more than willing to grant illegal discounts to anyone who could pose as a tourist, including resident foreigners with checks from their home-country banks...