Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...joined the party, it was, says one of its members, "in the seventh day of pneumonia." Thanks to his family's longtime prominence in Liberal politics and his own sharp intelligence-he was general manager of Milan's giant Banca Commerciale Italiana at 29-stocky Giovanni Malagodi rose to secretary-general of the party within two years. Ignoring the siren calls from left and far right, Malagodi and his colleagues hammered out a Liberal platform that, almost alone in Italian politics, opposes both private and state monopoly, and favors free play for free enterprise...
...weeks the standees jostled four deep behind the Metropolitan Opera's ropes, and even the ushers stared popeyed at the stage. Orchestra seats went on the black market for $80 a pair, but few could be had. Night after night, audiences (total: 79,000, who paid $365,000) rose in cheering ovations. Impresario Sol Hurok promptly scheduled four extra performances in Madison Square Garden in late June-and they are already sold...
...indicate how much of a raise hike was likely, and added that such increases are not announced officially until the fall. Dean Bundy explained that the exact amount of the raise would depend upon "the price of food and the price of help." Board costs rose $15 in the fall of 1956, and $24 in the fall...
Concentration in History rose from 11.7 per cent of the total last year to 12.6 per cent this year, passing last year's leader, English, which also rose in popularity...
...papers increased their lion's share of the total advertising carried by all major New York papers from 23.4% to 30.6%. Pitted against the Times, the rival Herald Tribune floundered badly. Its circulation held steady at about half the Times's, even rose a bit. But over the ten-year period, it lost 3.3% of its share...