Word: rosee
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...state of Israel is an island of Western culture, freedom and law in a morass of premedieval hate. The land "carved from the land of the Arabs" was, under Arab rule, a desert; it is now a rose garden in a wasteland of thorns. Israel is the only democracy in the Middle East, and the only nation in that area openly siding with the U.S. in the international power struggle...
...program. Glen Cove kindergartners discuss the coming of a new baby into the family group. "We make it clear that the baby was not 'got' at the hospital, but grew inside the mother until the doctor helped it get out," says Glen Cove's Mrs. Rose Daniels, sex-education consultant to the classroom instructors. Mrs. Daniels' kindergartens also incubate hen's eggs-the use of such animals as hamsters and gerbils can be unfortunate, since they sometimes eat their young. To brief her five-year-olds on the principal anatomical discrepancy between boys and girls...
...short revival. Politically, Hollywood soon succumbed to the rise of McCarthy, and culturally to that of television, both of which forced the motion picture industry to compete almost exclusively for an audience it had previously sought to resist. The results of this competition were fast and unmistakable: genres rose overnight to replace the social problems that were now taboo. Foreign settings, both in time and place, took over when it became impossible to face the present forcefully. Hacks were rampant...
West Germany still has trouble keeping her planes in the air. Last week the crash toll of F-104G fighter-bombers-known as Starfighters-rose to 70 when a German navy lieutenant safely ejected after his engine failed near Cologne. The noncombat loss of so many planes compares in military aviation only with the Luftwaffe's own horrendous record in the late 1930s, when it lost 572 aircraft in 1938 alone, including the mass crash of 31 Stuka dive bombers that blindly followed a flight leader through the clouds and smack into the ground...
...selling it for $1.29 per oz. Next day, traders on Manhattan's Commodity Exchange bid up the price of silver to $1.67 per oz. Though the price of the metal for immediate delivery eased to $1.5085 by the end of last week, silver for May 1968 delivery rose as high as $1.60 before closing...