Word: roses
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kliphuis waited until the water rose to his lower lip. Then he saw that the water had stopped rising, and a small pocket of air remained at the roof of the car. This was the magic moment of the bubble-when the pressure on the inside of the car equaled that on the outside. Kliphuis slowly turned the door handle, which now opened easily, shot through the opening and surfaced. "You have to persuade the pupils to wait for the bubble and not panic," explained Teacher Herman Vos. "That's all there...
...voluntary) in the last two years was only one-half of one per cent. The considerable increase to which I called special attention in my annual report for 1957-58 was only in the two related sub-categories of voluntary withdrawals labelled as for "personal" and "medical" reasons, which rose from...
...dependent on the auto industry, the state was very hard hit by the recession, and unemployment has ranged between twelve and fifteen per cent of the working force. With employment off, tax revenues dropped--the sales tax income went from $323 million to $296 million--but the expenses rose. As communities exhausted their unemployment funds, for example, the state took over...
Then came the costumed dogs, the children and the State Police. The crowd thinned to the bars and little boys played on the curb, floating shamrocks in the gutter. But then a great cry rose from three colleens on a balcony, and as an emerald convertible rounded the corner, everyone cheered and pressed forward once more...
...Sins of Rose Bernd (German). A steaming plateful of gravy-and-dumplings naturalism in the grand German manner. Nevertheless, this modernization of a Gerhart Hauptmann play about the horrors of unmarried motherhood is often moving, thanks mostly to an intensely intelligent performance by Maria Schell...