Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Illinois' Paul H. Douglas, another outspoken advocate of big-spending welfare programs, rose to "agree with the Senator from Pennsylvania." Also chiming in: Wisconsin's William Proxmire, Oregon's Wayne Morse and Minnesota's Hubert H. Humphrey, who promised the farm belt an entirely "new" Democratic farm program, which is now discreetly buried in Humphrey's desk...
General Karim Kassem's revolution will be one year old on July 14, and sweltering Baghdad last week was alive with preparations for the great day. Triumphal arches rose in the streets, and a new Iraqi flag-red, black, green and yellow-was going up on lampposts...
...punch he had been talking about for months: a straight right hand backed up by all the power in his broad-shouldered, 196-lb. body. With devastating accuracy it found a small opening between Patterson's raised gloves, caught him squarely in the face (see cut). Patterson literally rose six inches into the air before thudding to the canvas on the seat of his white satin pants. He wobbled up at the count of nine, and stared bewildered in the direction of the Yankee bleachers. Johansson did not wait for him to turn around. He clipped him with...
Result could be that air temperature would increase by 1° to 2° Centigrade. "Southern California might dry up completely if the temperature rose in the way we think it might-making it an impossible place to live, rather than almost impossible the way it is now." The ocean will also grow warmer, and will be forced to release dissolved carbon dioxide to the atmosphere. This will increase the greenhouse effect. At some point in this chain reaction, the Antarctic icecap will melt, adding enough water to the ocean to drown nearly all of the earth's great...
...departure finally arrived, Ahmed set out on the road through the mountains clogged with thousands of pilgrims ("White, brown, black, yellow people, all moving together"). As they streamed along the road together-a few in cars and buses, some on mules, but most on foot-a steady chant rose in unison from the column: "Labbaika Allahumma labbaika! [Here we are, Lord, here...