Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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With words to match the splendor of his navy blue uniform trimmed with gold braid and epaulets, the Governor of Kenya rose in Nairobi's Legislative Council to deliver his maiden address. "There is a new government in England with a new Colonial Secretary, and a new Governor of Kenya," said Sir Patrick Renison. "In a glowing spirit of challenge and adventure, let us put the darkness behind us and look bravely to the future...
Mahmud knew that he must pay for his crime. He rose in his prison cell at 3:30 on the morning of the day he was to be hanged. He made his religious ablutions by washing his arms, face and the insteps of his feet, prayed with the prison mullah, and sipped tea with relatives and friends. When one of his sisters broke into tears, Mahmud told her not to worry, said soothingly that "death comes to everyone in this world." Driving in a police car to Naserieh Square, where the public execution was to be held, Mahmud sang contentedly...
Rubber Barons. The biggest development of Amazon riches was the rubber boom, which began when Charles Macintosh started making raincoats in 1823. Vulcanization and later the automobile fed the prosperity; output rose to a peak of 42,286 tons in 1912-at prices that hit $3 a lb. In the jungle, the rubber barons enslaved Indians and immigrants, drove them so hard that 300,000 died; a 230-mile railroad, built to carry rubber from Bolivia, cost 70 lives a mile to build. In Manaus, the rubber tycoons built mansions and watched Pavlova dance in a $10 million opera house...
...Washington (8-1)-moved closer to the Rose Bowl by shutting out California...
...Voice, Too. Soprano Moffo's success at the Met caps a career that developed almost by accident. The daughter of an Italian-descended shoemaker, Anna grew up in Wayne. Pa., made her debut at seven, singing Mighty Lak' a Rose in a school assembly program. After that she sang in choirs, school recitals, at weddings and funerals, without ever taking a lesson. When she left school, she turned down a Hollywood offer because she wanted to, become a nun. Later she decided that she lacked a true vocation, won a scholarship to Philadelphia's Curtis Institute singing...