Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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When the last brickbat had been flung, Eleanor Roosevelt rose up like teacher reproving a wayward elderly schoolboy. "He doesn't like certain kinds of liberals," she said. "I welcome every kind of liberal . . . Perhaps we have something to learn from liberals that are younger." Flushing to his hairline, Truman managed to applaud politely. But, as usual, he had the last hot word. Next day before he flew back home to Missouri, Truman grandly assured attendant reporters that "there isn't any split. There aren't any liberals in the Democratic Party; they're all Democrats...
...last week in the first Grand Prix of the United States. The man to beat was a broad-faced Aussie named Jack Brabham, 33. A steady man with a mechanic's instinct for pushing his low-slung Cooper-Climax no harder than metal and rubber can stand, Brabham rose out of the ranks this year (TIME, Aug. 10) to take the lead in the world driving championship...
...increasingly apparent as the years went on. Throughout the twenties and early thirties, the number of students in Honors increased every year until in 1934, the Honors percentage of the graduating class was just about twice that of the Class of 1915. The number of degrees awarded with distinction rose at a comparable rate. Most important, however, was the change in student attitude...
...hardly finished when conservative Bostonians rose in protest, denouncing him as a traitor and a Bolshevik, accusing the University of supporting the strike and mob rule, (Harvard had actually sent about 200 students to help fill temporary gaps in the force) and demanding that Laski be immediately removed from his instructorship...
...balloon cooled and dropped to 68,000 ft. Commander Ross dumped 300 lbs. of "sunset ballast" (mostly steel shot) to boost it up again. Though the gondola was insulated, it soon grew deathly cold. Both men shivered so hard that they literally shook the whole gondola. When Venus finally rose at 3:30 a.m., Moore started to turn the telescope toward it. But whenever the men moved, the gondola corkscrewed and rotated, vibrating all the time from their shivering. "It was very hard to point in a given direction," says Moore. "It showed that Newton's action and reaction...