Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...fixer," who works on price tags, transposes the 78? tag from 2 Ibs. of hamburger to a $3.38 steak. In Southern California, where supermarket arrests rose 50% this year, a top security agent caught mothers who train their children to help mommy with the shoplifting by toting parcels out through the guard rails...
Though aware he would fall, gangling (6 ft. 3 in.) Premier Erlander rose from a sickbed to cast his ballot in favor of a Socialist proposal to provide uniform, state-administered pensions to all Swedes at the age of 67, giving them a fat two-thirds of the average income of their 15 best earning years. With the Socialists and Communists voting for Erlander's bill and the right-of-center parties against, the vote went 117 to 111 against Erlander...
Just as Britain's Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd rose to tackle a question in the House of Commons, there were rafter-rattling cheers, and the Right Honorable Member for Woodford, Sir Winston Churchill, walked in through the great oak doors on his first visit to the House in four months. Pale and less cherubic than usual, the old parliamentarian made his way to a corner spot near the Treasury Bench, chatted with members from both sides, voted twice with the government on minor issues. Next day Churchill's chauffeur-driven Humber made a turn on Parliament Square, collided...
Philanthropic foundations in 1956-57 handed out 39% of the gifts-$319 million. Next most generous source: alumni, who donated $101 million. Grants and gifts tabbed for faculty salaries (including the vast Ford Foundation gifts) rose 506% from 1954-55; next highest gain was in gifts for basic research...
Dave Beady won, one up, and number three man Bob Grundeman lost, 3-2. Bob Rose defeated his Wesleyan opponent, 5-4. Playing number five, sophomore Watt Tyler dropped his match, 3-2. Bob Davis won, one up, and bottom man North Wood lost his first varsity match of the season...