Word: rosing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Construction contracts in September rose 26% over September 1957, to a new monthly high, reported F. W. Dodge Corp., indicating a rising level of building activity in the months ahead...
...copper output was raised 36%, with Kennecott mines going on a seven-day week to meet the growing recovery demand and offset the shortage caused by strikes in U.S., Rhodesia, Canada. The price rose to a 20-month high of 31.3? on the London market...
Died. Dame Rose Macaulay, 77, British novelist (Potterism, The World My Wilderness, The Towers of Trebizond), essayist, satirist; of a heart attack soon after signing a telegram from British writers to the Union of Soviet Writers protesting the expulsion of Nobel Prizewinner Boris Pasternak (see FOREIGN NEWS) ; in London. Spinster daughter of a Cambridge don and distant kin to Historian Thomas Babington Macaulay, Dame Rose was raised in Italy, where her mother had been sent for her health. The sunny freedom of a girlhood on the Ligurian coast prepared her for anything but the spiny conventionalities of the traditional education...
...Pope, providing a transition to the next reign, he destroyed the notion within minutes after his election-so much so that some Romans fondly recall the story told of Sixtus V (1585-1590), who in conclave seemed decrepit and ailing but, as soon as elected, threw away his cane, rose to his full height and announced in a vigorous voice: "Now I am Caesar...
John XXIII was born in a grey stone farmhouse on a November night in 1881. A couple of hours later, his mother rose from her bed and hurried with her husband and her first son to the little parish church of St. John. The sleepy priest grumbled at the lateness of the hour, but they insisted-"Do you want us to take him all the way home again without baptism?"-and that night Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli became a member of the church he would rule...